upon to organize in 1789. The states had been dependent on England but wanted no more of it. They had been in fact 13 independent republics, and they wanted no more of that either. No one knew how the new Constitution would work or how it would effect the freedom of the states. Washington was determined to build a real federal government for the United States. The new government was launched April 30, 1789, when Washington took his oath …showed first 75 words of 389 total…

…showed last 75 words of 389 total…use the governments power without overstepping its bounds. George Washington remains a critcal part of American history, because he set the precedent for the presidency. The point remains, if Washington would have made any critical mistakes we may not have the government we have today, there may not have been another president. We owe our success as a country partly to George Washington, for God’s sake he implemented Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday.