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This text offers an understanding of George Washington and the history and government he helped to make. Phelps makes the case for the President's decisive importance to the development of American constitutional republicanism with emphasis on the strength and coherence of Washington's political philosophy.

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Indispensable to understanding Washington and the history and government he helped make. --<b>Richard B. Bernstein</b> in <i>Constitution</i> This book clarifies for the present generation what Washington's contemporaries knew very well-that throughout his life, and especially during his ten years of extraordinary political leadership, he was an earnest, consistent, and even profound republican constitutionalist, in theory as well as in practice. --<b>Ralph Ketcham</b>, author of <i>Framed for Posterity: The Enduring Philosophy of the Constitution</i> This is a book we have long and truly needed. Phelps makes the case for Washington's decisive importance to the development of American constitutional republicanism. --<b>Lance Banning</b>, author of <i>The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology</i> A splendid, well-written reexamination of George Washington as a constitutional thinker as well as a practitioner. --<b>Thomas E. Cronin</b>, editor of <i>Inventing the American Presidency</i>

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