Let's say you have a brand new country. You want to take it out for a spin and make some new laws.

What's the first thing you're going to do?

Maybe ratify a treaty, perhaps something about the economy.

Well, if you were the United States back in 1789, you didn't do anything nearly that exciting.

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The first Congress was the most important in U.S. history because it established how our government

would actually function.

Had it failed, as many at the time feared it would, it's

possible that the United States as we know it today would not exist.

During two years of often fierce political struggle, they passed the first ten

amendments to the Constitution, they resolved bitter regional rivalries to choose the site of the new national capital,

and they set in place a procedure for admitting new states to the Union.

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If you've ever started a business, there was probably a stage you went through early on where you got letterhead, business cards, and maybe some office supplies.

None of that really has anything to do with what your business actually does, but it's all part of the infrastructure of doing business.

Its overhead, but it's a necessary overhead.

When the first Congress convened on April 1st, 1789, they had a whole bunch of housekeeping

that they had to take care of.

They had never met before.

As institutions, they had no rules or traditions.

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