WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS

Summary of the major points of George Washington's Farewell Address



Summary of the major points of George Washington's Farewell Address

George Washington had the privilege of laying the first stone of the Capital of the United States and indeed, the cornerstone of the formation of a great people and a powerful country, even with all its contradictions: for example, being a wealthy landowner and merchant until his death only available rid the body of slaves who served all his life. Never dared, much less, despite its historic role as constitutional foundation, the new country to prohibit slavery in a portion of its inhabitants. Washington set north, a direction to the nation with some lines of future decisions, and that in general, determined the growth and power of the United States.

One of his first decisions was to reject the proposals for a large part of his followers, to become the new king of the colonies, after the period of wars and struggles for independence between 1773 (Boston Tea Party protest) and 1783 (England makes peace and recognized the independence of these colonies). From this stage, Washington was clearly not to repeat the experience Inglaterrra absolutist monarchy, and the rest of Europe, strongly insisted on a balanced approach between the Republican and Unionist as federalist. In 1789, he was the first president of the new nation for a period of four years, as a federalist constitution.

He a second term and proposed a third from 1797, which he refused. This gesture of Washington established since then, a practice not to accept a third term for the next president to Franklin Roosevelt, elected for three and four terms (in 1951 applied a constitutional amendment, limiting to two consecutive re-election). Washington argues that a nation must be privileged above all, the dominance of the law on all kinds of peculiarities and interests (Burke, 1962). He says: "All that prevents the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations under whatever plausible reason to disturb design, oppose, violate the regular proceedings of the constituted authorities, are destructive of the fundamental principles, and a dangerous trend. They give birth to the factions, and provide them with immense force.

Washington says: "(factions) put in place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, and small and artificial view of a few, and following the alternate triumphs of different factions, the government targeted the wrong concerted ...