... favor of ratification of the new constitution. Unanimously elected for president in 1789, Washington formed the first cabinet with brilliant secretaries such as Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Edmund Randolph. He appointed John Jay as this nations first Chief Justice, and facing more war proclaimed ... address gave the American people much hope for the future and laid the foundation on foreign policies in years to come. After his second term he retired to his Mount Vernon estate and in 1799 he died. Under the supervision of president Washington, Alexander Hamilton ...

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AP American Government From Confederation to the Constitution Constitution - a framework for settling political disputes. It "involves a set of fundamental rules and customary procedures designed to resolve political differences and make political decisions ... need for a bill of rights, felt that a list of specific rights was not necessary. In fact, it was detrimental to protecting individual rights. The opinion of Federalists (as written by Alexander Hamilton in Federalist Paper No. 84) was that if the Constitution contained a list of specific individual rights and liberties that the natio...

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