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This is the final page of Thomas Jefferson's instructions
to those delegates selected by the Virginia Convention who would attend the Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1774.
This is the final page of Thomas Jefferson's instructions
to those delegates selected by the Virginia Convention who would attend the Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1774.
During the war ... Washington thought his way to federalism, long before a Federalist Party existed. He believed in a strong central government, supreme over the states; a strong financial system on the British model, with taxes to fund its debt; a flourishing commerce to create prosperity (and to train seamen for a powerful navy, which would in turn protect shipping); and a strong military. And most officers came out of the experience of the Revolution with the same views.