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Document · United States · 1796

Washington's Farewell Address

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Rating: 53
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53Watch it awake.

He left office with a warning, and he held people as property while he wrote.

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The review

It is a newspaper essay. He did not deliver it from a porch, whatever the picture in my head wanted. He declines another term. He warns against parties and against permanent foreign alliances. The warning is political, and a house can read it. I am not going to write him a sentence he did not publish so the exit feels warmer.

He held people as property while he wrote about the republic. That fact sits in the same week as the warning, or I have prettied the man. Leaving office is a real limit on the want to stay. It does not settle the people he held. I can admire the refusal of another term and still say the ownership out loud. If the kids hear only the farewell legend, they will miss the household he kept.

Journal

Keep Washington's Farewell Address in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 53. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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The Gettysburg Address

64 instead of 53

The Gettysburg Address is still a speech film, and it scores 64 instead of 53. What you gain is stewardship: He leaves the living a government that is not supposed to perish.

The eight

6
Industry
He treats the presidency as a job he will not keep another term.
3
Household
The essay is political; he still held people as property at home.
4
Piety
He warns the country, and the piece is not a prayer.
6
Courage
Declining another term gives up an office he could have kept.
6
Republic
He warns against parties and alliances while holding people as property.
8
Temperance
Declining another term puts down the want to stay in office.
5
Truth
The political warning can stand, and he still held people as property.
4
Stewardship
He left the office; this essay did not free the people he held.

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Document · United States · 1788

The Federalist Papers

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Newspaper arguments for a stronger union, not a neutral textbook you can swallow whole.

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The review

Eighty-five newspaper essays, and I am not reading them all tonight. Hamilton, Madison, and Jay were arguing for the Constitution. The ones a house still opens are about factions, separation of powers, and the courts. A teen can take a single paper. The whole stack is not a night's work, and it is not a neutral textbook. They wanted a stronger union, and they wrote like men trying to win.

I don't hand a child the pile and call it how the country works, as if the other side never answered. It is a case. The case mattered. Separation of powers is a real design, not a slogan I need to puff. If we open one, we say it is an argument, then we stop. Saving the other eighty-four for some imaginary free evening is how this book becomes a prop on the shelf.