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On this episode of Nutes World, I wanted to share with you one of the most important documents in the

United States because it sets the stage for our democracy to continue. It was written by President George Washington as his farewell address in 1796.

He never actually gave it as a public speech, but it was published in Philadelphia's American Daily Advertiser on September 19, 1796.

Back then Philadelphia was the interim capital as we moved ultimately towards Washington, DC.

Washington had decided not to seek reelection. He'd been elected twice. He frankly was tired, but he also knew that it was very important to establish a limitation on power.

And by stepping down from power, he provided a standard of two terms as a limit that would literally go on all the way until Franklin, Delano Roosevelt in the 1940s.

And the country decided having President selected more than two terms was such a bad idea that we then passed the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution to go back to Washington's President.

So I thought as we celebrate President's Day, which is in fact Washington's birthday, I wanted to both honor his legacy but also learn from his legacy because it was an amazingly smart farewell address.

He'd first started working on it late in his first term when he thought he would not run for reelection. And James Madison helped him with an early draft.

And then he was talked into running for reelection by both Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, who were competitors, but who both agreed that Washington was so central to the survival of the country.

That he had to run. They talked him into running for a second term and late in his second term, he turned to Alexander Hamilton and asked Hamilton to help improve the original James Madison draft.

And then the end Washington himself went through the whole thing and it really tells you a lot about kind of the basic principles of a Republican government, the principles of freedom.

That Washington had learned over a very long time. Remember, he was a legislator in the Virginia legislature before we became a country.

He had been a soldier and actually had played a key role in starting the seven years war or what we called an America the French Indian War.

He had been part of the original continental congress and then had been selected to go to Boston because they thought having a Virginian head up the new American Army

was essential to unify the country. He then was at war for eight solid years, went on to go back home, rested a little bit, but that drawn back in because it was clear that the articles of Confederation were too weak and that the states were floundering.

And so he became the president of the constitutional convention in Philadelphia.

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