George Washington
See also: Federalists
Did our first president, also known as “The Father of Our Country” adhere to the constitution or did he ignore any restrictions on his actions as if he was king?
On September 24 1789, President Washington signed into law the Judicial Act of 1789 / Judiciary Act, an act which amended (added to) Article III of the constitution. This was a clear and blatant violation of Article V - Amendment Process of the constitution as is seen below:
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
George Washington: first president to ignore the constitution on multiple occasions.
Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, the president behind the scenes, concocted a tax on whiskey in order to tax the western farmers for his schemes to pay off the debt which was primarily owed to the wealthy, wellborn stock holders in the UNCONSTITUTIONAL US Bank as mentioned above.
When the tax was resisted, in every state (the Southern state governments just refused to appoint tax collectors) especially in Western Pennsylvania, Hamilton convinced Washington to raise a military force to invade Pennsylvania and put down the tax rebellion. Several officials, including Chief Justice John Jay advised Washington to do so without the request of the governor and/or state legislature would make such an invasion UNCONSTITUTIONAL under Article IV Section IV.
Regardless, Washington appointed Hamilton to the rank of Lieutenant General and they personally led a military force of 13,000 into Pennsylvania and put down the rebellion.
We could accurately call George Washington the Father Of Unconstitutional government considering today’s lessons—for Abraham Lincoln used Washington’s actions as precedent for his UNCONSTITUTIONAL invasion of the South and the Border States while President Dwight Eisenhower used it as justification for UNCONSTITUTIONLY ordering federal troops into Little Rock Arkansas in 1957 and President Lyndon Johnson did the same in Alabama in 1965.
Obviously, the constitution was intentionally written so as to allow the government to do anything it damn well wants to with zero repercussions and it started at the very beginning when those who wrote the constitution ruled the government.
In February 1792 President George Washington signed into law the provisions for the First Bank of the United States. Such an entity was deemed unconstitutional by James Madison, Attorney General Edmund Randolph and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson.
Jefferson believed that states should charter their own banks and that a national bank unfairly favored wealthy businessmen in urban areas over farmers in the country.
Jefferson stated the bill for establishing a National Bank undertakes among other things:
- To form the subscribers into a corporation.
- To enable them in their corporate capacities to receive grants of land; and so far is against the laws of Mortmain.
- To make alien subscribers capable of holding lands, and so far is against the laws of Alienage.
- To transmit these lands, on the death of a proprietor, to a certain line of successors; and so far changes the course of Descents.
- To put the lands out of the reach of forfeiture or escheat, and so far is against the laws of Forfeiture and Escheat.
- To transmit personal chattels to successors in a certain line and so far is against the laws of Distribution.
- To give them the sole and exclusive right of banking under the national authority; and so far is against the laws of Monopoly.
- To communicate to them a power to make laws paramount to the laws of the States; for so they must be construed, to protect the institution from the control of the State legislatures, and so, probably, they will be construed.
Yet, provided with all of the above objections, George Washington unconstitutionally signed into law the first US Bank.
A careful examination of Jefferson’s above listed objections reveal considerable insight into the problems we face today under the unconstitutional Federal Reserve.