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The Forgotten Presidents (The presidents before George Washington)
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Posted on 12/03/2001 7:42:54 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez
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Found this interesting, I hope you all do as well.
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posted on
12/03/2001 7:42:54 AM PST
by
Luis Gonzalez
(Blue3711@aol.com)
To: Luis Gonzalez
Ahhh, the crap you can find online...
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posted on
12/03/2001 7:48:02 AM PST
by
paul544
To: William Wallace
Found it.
To: Luis Gonzalez
Hate to say it, but George Washington
really was the first president of our Federal Republican government which we (theoretically) still have today. The presidents before him were actually presidents of the Continental Congress which was designated by the Articles of Confederation. We weren't so much a nation then, as a confederation of states. (You can find all of this neat stuff at
snopes.com anyway...
;) ttt
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posted on
12/03/2001 7:50:25 AM PST
by
detsaoT
To: detsaoT
Yeah, I know, even the author acknowledges that fact, in spite of the fact that we operated as a confederated republic technically since 7/4/1776, and Washington ascended to the presidency in 1789.
Just interesting stuff some may have never thought about.
To: Luis Gonzalez
Thanks. The American Confederation deserves much more study and respect than it has received.
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posted on
12/03/2001 8:10:58 AM PST
by
rdww
To: Luis Gonzalez
Thankyou for this great reading. I continue to learn much in FreeRepublic articles.
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posted on
12/03/2001 8:22:02 AM PST
by
Lewite
To: rdww
"The American Confederation deserves much more study and respect than it has received."I'll second that!
To: Luis Gonzalez
Thanks for this great article. It raises a lot of interesting questions: How did the Swedish Hansons become Americanized? How did Boudinot's decendant become a Cherokee? What must it have been like for a Scot after Culloden, leaving everything for the New World? And what would our country have been like had it kept the older form of the Presidency? I'm inclined to think that the stronger Presidency that the Constitution gave us helped to keep the country together, but it's good to see such a fine collection of upstanding and public-spirited citizens.
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posted on
12/03/2001 8:45:30 AM PST
by
x
To: Luis Gonzalez
Yes, the Confederation government had many successes to its credit. Frankly, I think we made a mistake by abandoning it.
To: Luis Gonzalez
BTT for later read.
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posted on
12/03/2001 8:54:54 AM PST
by
jokar
To: Luis Gonzalez
I found it interesting and enjoable reading.
To: Luis Gonzalez
That's the article!
Good find!
To: Luis Gonzalez
Very interesting! Here's a little more on Arthur St. Clair, after whom my hometown,
Upper St. Clair, Pa., was named:
The Township of St. Clair was named in honor of General Arthur St. Clair, a controversial figure of the 18th century, who came from Scotland in 1755 and settled in the Ligonier Valley. During the Revolutionary War, he rose from Colonel to Major General and was the only Pennsylvanian to become a Major General in the Continental Army. For a time, he commanded Fort Ticonderoga before losing it to the British, for which he was later court-martialed. At the close of the war, he entered the Continental Congress and was its President in 1787. His last days were spent in poverty and obscurity.
To: rdww
"The American Confederation deserves much more study and respect than it has received."
I second that motion! Even in college, it is hard to find a course that does more than mention this part of American history in passing.
Pre-Constitutional law is also facinating. For instance, the "Northwest Ordinance" mentioned in the article, is still law and established the basic principles for the "Township and Range" system of surveying.
To: x; stand watie
Actually, according to a biography of Gen. Stand Watie, the Elias Boudinot who was a leader of the Cherokee was born with an Indian name meaning stag or male deer, and was commonly known as Buck Watie. He was the General's brother.
However, when Buck Watie attended the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut, President Boudinot was his instructor (and funded his education?). Buck Watie then adopted the name of his benefactor.
Source: General Stand Watie's Confederate Indians, p. 12.
To: rdww
"The American Confederation deserves much more study and respect than it has received."
I second that motion! Even in college, it is hard to find a course that does more than mention this part of American history in passing.
Pre-Constitutional law is also facinating. For instance, the "Northwest Ordinance" mentioned in the article, is still law and established the basic principles for the "Township and Range" system of surveying.
To: Luis Gonzalez
Ask any school child and they will readily tell you "George Washington." Ask any school child and he will readily tell you "George Washington."
To: Luis Gonzalez; sheltonmac
Bump!!!
To: Austin Willard Wright
Yes, the Confederation government had many successes to its credit. Frankly, I think we made a mistake by abandoning it. With Kalifornistan out of control and Oregon merily blocking Ashkroft, we can say that we now have a confederation of leftist states. Somehow the legal states always get short changed compared to the unrepenting ones.
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