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Washington's strong support mobilized public opinion and proved decisive in securing ratification in the Senate by the necessary two-thirds majority.
Washington's Farewell Address ( issued as a public letter in 1796 ) was one of the most influential statements of republicanism.
* 1796 – George Washington's farewell address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
Features of the city include the unique downtown waterfront ( the only Eastside downtown frontage along Lake Washington's shoreline ), with restaurants, art galleries, a 400 seat performing arts center, public parks, including beaches, and a collection of public art, primarily bronze sculptures.
The efforts of the new French Minister Edmond-Charles Genet to raise militias and privateers to attack Spanish lands and British warships, during the Citizen Genet Affair, despite Washington's pledge of neutrality turned public opinion against the French and led to the resignation of Thomas Jefferson, a longtime supporter of the French cause, as Secretary of State.
In this respect, Proposal 2 is similar to California's Proposition 209 and Washington's Initiative 200, other initiatives that also banned the use of race in public university admissions decisions.
The State of Washington's network of Small Business Development Centers is a cooperative effort of Washington State University, other public educational institutions, economic development organizations and the US Small Business Administration.
Chicago Mayor Harold Washington's administration had passed an edict that 30 % of the work for public sector projects be set aside for minority and women-owned businesses.
According to the rationale used to justify the state of Washington's adoption of the accreditation requirements, requiring accreditation of air ambulance services provides assurance that the service meets national public safety standards.
After the end of his second term as Lieutenant Governor, Pritchard went into retirement and became a board member of TVW, Washington's public affairs network.
Cal Anderson Park is a public park on Seattle, Washington's Capitol Hill that includes Lincoln Reservoir and Bobby Morris Playfield.
Valley Forge was established as the first state park of Pennsylvania in 1893 by the Valley Forge Park Commission " to preserve, improve, and maintain as a public park the site on which General George Washington's army encamped at Valley Forge .".
The film, which had its first public showing on May 10, 1936 at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, had a preview screening in March at the White House.
One of the most referenced parts of Washington's letter was his strong support of the importance of religion and morality in not only promoting private and public happiness, but also in promoting the political prosperity of the nation.
As Washington's 17th Attorney General, McKenna manages the largest public law office in the state with approximately 1, 150 employees and offices in 13 cities statewide: Bellingham, Port Angeles, Everett, Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Wenatchee, Spokane, Yakima, Kennewick, Vancouver, Tumwater, and Pullman.
The National Park Service now maintains Washington Circle's park, the public space surrounding Washington's statue.
The site was renamed to Longfellow House – Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site on December 22, 2010, to ensure that the connection to Washington was not lost in the memory of the general public.
Washington's campus is located kitty-corner to Presidio Middle School, also a public school.
The formation of a victims advocacy group Tennis Shoe Brigade, named in reference to the discovery of a child's tennis shoe leading the police to the assaulted boy, rallying for toughening the laws, raised the public pressure on Washington's Governor Booth Gardner.

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Adams's political views and his active role in the Senate made him a natural target for critics of George Washington's administration.
In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, Smith said that she never pressed Washington for marriage because she knew Washington's first love was politics, saying, " He was a political animal.
Despite Washington's reluctance, Erhard envisaged offering Nikita Khrushchev, the leader in Moscow, massive economic aid in exchange for more political liberty in East Germany and eventually for reunification.
The same U. S. statement also reaffirmed Washington's support for a political settlement to the Chechen conflict and urged Russia to pursue such a solution.
Having credentials as an activist, legislator, and " hero " in a hostage crisis, as well as an early endorsement from the Washington Post, Barry followed in Washington's mayoralty when its first elected mayor, Walter Washington, fell out of political favor in the 1978 election.
It was the only major political threat to Washington's command during the war.
In July 1985, in an effort to support Washington's political reform movement, Gutiérrez founded the West Town-26th Ward Independent Political Organization ( IPO ).
" Fred Harrington states, " the anti-imperialist's did not oppose expansion because of commercial, religious, constitutional, or humanitarian reasons but instead because they thought that an imperialist policy ran counter to the political doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, Washington's Farewell Address, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address ".
Considered one of Washington's most desirable living spaces, the Watergate has been popular with members of Congress and political appointees in the executive branch since it opened.
In political discourse, " K Street " has become a metonym for Washington's lobbying industry since many lobbying firms were traditionally located on the section in Northwest Washington which passes from Georgetown through a portion of downtown D. C ..
Considered Washington's premier residential address in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Massachusetts Avenue became known for its numerous mansions housing the city's social and political elites.
Washington's second term began more smoothly ( he died in November 1987 ), and Vrdolyak's political clout waned.
Jaffa also points to Federalist No. 43, in which James Madison declares that safety and happiness are the aims of all political institutions, and George Washington's first inaugural address as cementing the link between human happiness and government and therefore the Ancient roots of the American Founding.
Despite Washington's call to only change the Constitution through amendments, he warns the American people that groups seeking to overthrow the government may seek to pass constitutional amendments to weaken the government to a point where it is unable to defend itself from political factions, enforce its laws, and protect the people's rights and property.
" From Washington's perspective and judgment, the tendency of political parties toward permanent despotism is because they eventually and " gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual.
To this day, Washington's Farewell Address is considered to be one of the most important documents in American history and the foundation of the Federalist Party's political doctrine.
Washington's statements on the importance of religion and morality in American politics, as well as his warnings on the dangers of foreign alliances, although often stated and recognized arguments, were provided special consideration from the pen of an American hero and became common reference during political debates well into the nineteenth century.
The Senate continues this tradition into modern times, observing Washington's Birthday by selecting a member of the Senate, alternating between political parties each year, to read the address aloud on the Senate floor.
This region was a major agricultural area of New York, and these raids were intended to interdict the supply of foodstuffs to General George Washington's army while pressuring the Revolution's political leaders in the region, who were actively persecuting loyalist residents as traitors aiding and supplying British troops.
When America's first political parties developed during the first term of George Washington's presidency the North supported the Federalists, believing in a centralized government, while the South stood behind Thomas Jefferson and his interpretation of the 10th Amendment.
Vaghi is also active in the John Carroll Society, " an old-time Catholic service organization favored by Washington's large Catholic legal and political establishment ," as whose chaplain he serves as of 1987.

Washington's and address
Foreign policy themes were expressed considerably in George Washington's farewell address ; these included among other things, observing good faith and justice towards all nations and cultivating peace and harmony with all, excluding both " inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others ", " steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world ", and advocating trade with all nations.
Washington's 1895 Atlanta Exhibition address was viewed as a " revolutionary moment " by both African-Americans and whites across the country.
That year, Lowell gave an address at the centenary of George Washington's inauguration.
The State Legislature was deeply divided over how to address an alarming revenue shortfall, but did agree to an increase in Washington's statewide sales tax rate from 5. 5 % to 6. 5 %.
In March 2002, Peacefire won a $ 1000 award at King County District Court in Bellevue, Washington in each of three cases against Red Moss Media, Paulann Allison, and Richard Schueler ( for sending misleading, unsolicited, commercial emails to its webmaster bearing deceptive information such as a forged return e-mail address or a misleading subject line ), in a test of Washington's tough anti-spamming laws.
George Washington's farewell address is often cited as laying the foundation for a tradition of American non-interventionism:
President Thomas Jefferson extended Washington's ideas in his March 4, 1801 inaugural address: " peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.
In January 1862, during the American Civil War, thousands of Philadelphia residents signed a petition requesting the Congress to commemorate the 130th anniversary of Washington's birth by reading his Farewell Address " in one or the other of the Houses of Congress .” First read in the United States House of Representatives in February 1862, the reading of Washington's address became a tradition in both houses by 1899.
Washington's final manuscript, images of his hand-written farewell address
In a model like Pericles in Thucydides, or George Washington's farewell address in American History, the Venetian Doge Moncinego had long ago warned Venice not to overextended itself in a land empire.
Massachusetts Avenue was long Washington's premier residential street, as Pennsylvania was once its most sought-after business address.
Esther de Berdt Reed, a London-born woman who worked to raise money in Philadelphia, went with over three dozen women door to door in support of the Revolutionary War, more specifically to address General George Washington's complaints.

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