When George Washington was young, he was taught penmanship (his was very good as President), by writing over and over again what were called “The 110 Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour”. (You may order a complete copy of these rules from the Mount Vernon Ladies Association if you’d like.
You know these rules helped him develop the character that allowed him to become so beloved to his fellow countrymen. One of the rules he was directed to write was “When your superiors talk to any body, hearken not neither speak nor laugh.”
Tonight I was a little disappointed. Not so much at what was in the story, but at what was left out. For example when George Washington was finally sworn in at Federal Hall in New York City as the new President of the United States of America. The oath of office was administered with the words required.
Snoopy is lying in the grass and says to himself: ‘Maybe I shouldn’t have given up on my writing.’
The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. We should make ourselves friends of the Constitution. Anything less than this is sure to be “evil, wicked, mean, bad and nasty,” as my wife used to say about things she didn’t agree with me about.
The size of the United States of America was doubled by Thomas Jefferson’s purchase of the area “owned” by the French. Napoleon was in dire need of money to pursue his grand war in Europe. Jefferson wasn’t sure that such a purchase was within his power as President. But he was sure that this opportunity didn’t come around very often—so he bought the whole offered territory. This became known as the Louisiana Purchase.
Republic—a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
In the upcoming Presidential election it would seem to be very important to consider what our first President of the United States said about one thing to look for:
One of my other heroes, and Founding Fathers, Patrick Henry, was also an inventor of sorts. Patrick served for a while in his youth as a “bartender” at his father’s General Mercantile Store and Country Inn. He didn’t like it much. He saw first hand how much damage liquor did to the common man. Some people he served lost their money, their families, their wives, their homes, and even their lives to that vile habit—drinking.