George Washington: America's First Progressive
- ISBN-10
- 1433103710
- ISBN-13
- 9781433103711
- Series
- George Washington
- Category
- Constitutional history
- Pages
- 226
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Peter Lang
- Author
- William Barclay Allen
Description
Washington's political philosophy - radical for his time - was a commitment to the belief that law can never make just what is in its nature unjust. Before the close of the Revolutionary War, he had conceived of a union based on the progressive principle that the American people would qualify for self-government in the sense of free institutions in proportion to their moral capacity to govern themselves by the light of reason. Washington managed the conflicts over the spoils of victory that threatened to fracture the union. Containing this discord within the walls of the Constitution may be considered his single greatest achievement.
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