Washington was sworn in at the location where the book Law of Nations was located..a Bible was not there.
There are conflicting stories how a Bible for the ceremony was obtained.
The idea forming the 13 states into a republic came from Vattel.
The translator of the 1797 English edition passed away..at least 10 years before it was published. He visited the Colonies..and he had a manuscript.
Wow. Thats interesting. No one had so much as a Prayer Devotional? hum. It’s interesting what history remembers and what it does not, isn’t it?