... to concentrate on restoring Mount Vernon, he added a greenhouse, a mill, an icehouse, and horses, investigated the development of Potomac River navigation, and undertook various commercial ventures, traveled west to examine his land holdings near the Ohio River. His dairy notes steady stream of visitors, native and foreign; Mount Vernon, like its owner had already become a national ... institution. In May 1787, Washington headed the Virginia delegation to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and was unanimously elected presiding officer. His presence ... Pinckney's Treaty (1795)...

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... human social nature to form into factions or parties, it may just be inevitable that politics are a major player in a democratic system from the local level up and through the national level. Madison writes in The Federalist 10 Papers, "The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to ... and as well defends the party system. Schattschneider's principle argument is the ways in which parties "fill the gap". By filling the gap he is recognizing the different interest that the upper- class an...

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