Washington's+Farewell+Address

For Numbers 1-5 Make a simple statement that explains why Washington warned against each action. For number 6 write a letter to Washington that explains your position.(C.E.C.)

1. **__Warns against political parties.__** "It serves to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble [weaken] the Public Administration....agitates [stirs up] the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles [creates] the animosity [hatred] 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." 2. **__Stresses the importance of religion and morality.__** "Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice?" 3. **__Warns not to go into debt as a nation.__** "...cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly [little] 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..." 4. **__Warns against permanent foreign alliances.__** "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world..." 5. **__Warns about having an over-powerful military establishment.__** "...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." In saying farewell to the new nation he helped create Washington pointed out that ".......the name of America, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, you must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism..."

6. Based on what you know about the country today and what Washington wrote in his Farewell Address, do you think Washington would be happy with America if he was alive today?
 * Cite examples from these quotes.