Directions: Read each quote from George Washington’s Farewell Address. Summarize each quote in your own words in your google docs.
On the party system. "It serves to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration....agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one....against another....it opens the door to foreign influence and corruption...thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another." On stable public credit. "...cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible...avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt....it is essential that you...bear in mind, that towards the payments of debts there must be Revenue, that to have Revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised, which are not...inconvenient and unpleasant..." On permanent foreign alliances. "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world... On an over-powerful military. "...avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty." Directions: Use your textbook and any prior knowledge of American History to find an example of a time a time when our country did not follow Washington’s advice.
Directions:
Read each quote from George Washington’s Farewell Address.
Summarize each quote in your own words in your google docs.
On the party system.
"It serves to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration....agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one....against another....it opens the door to foreign influence and corruption...thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another."
On stable public credit.
"...cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible...avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt....it is essential that you...bear in mind, that towards the payments of debts there must be Revenue, that to have Revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised, which are not...inconvenient and unpleasant..."
On permanent foreign alliances.
"It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world...
On an over-powerful military.
"...avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty."
Directions:
Use your textbook and any prior knowledge of American History to find an example of a time a time when our country did not follow Washington’s advice.