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Focusing on key moments in Washington's life—such as his retirement as commander in chief of the American forces at the height of his power, unprecedented in 1793—The Great Experiment examined the genuinely revolutionary process that produced the first successful modern republican nation.
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47. 1.4K views 7 months ago. Part of the George Washington Presidential Library's Symposium "The Great Experiment: From the Founding to the Future." Join some of America's most preeminent...
5 gru 2023 · Is American democracy an “experiment” in the bubbling-beakers-in-a-laboratory sense of the word? If so, what is the experiment attempting to prove, and how will we know if and when it has ...
9 lis 2018 · As the 18th Century rolled on, American colonists increasingly felt that Parliament and the monarchy were denying them the traditional rights of Englishmen. They came to reject the facetious and pompous claims of governments—that citizens existed to serve the state.
The American experiment was unique and improbable in 1776, when Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence and the American colonies defied Britain, the most powerful nation on...
8 paź 1998 · Titled “The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republic,” it is the largest collection of Washington-related documents ever assembled, and many of them have never before...
4 maj 2002 · The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment, for promoting human happiness, by reasonable compact, in civil Society. It was to be, in the first instance, in a considerable degree, a government of accomodation as well as a government of Laws.
