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George Washington's Farewell Analysis
Cecilia Wheaton Pd: 6/7

George Washington's Farewell Address George Washington gave a very heartfelt and meaningful farewell address. Not only was he attempting to help our country at that time with clues as to how they might make themselves better, he did it in a generous way. He kind of obviously hinted as to how they needed to make their coutry strong. There were two main warnings that he stated, in my opinion, would help our country be the best and strongest it could be. The main warning, in my opinion, was him warning the American people that there were groups seeking to overthrow the government. They were seeking to pass constitutional amendments to weaken the government to a point where it would be unable to defend itself from

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