Here he is, he can’t help it: George Washington. Since 1882, in bronze, opposite the world’s leading stock exchange. At the place where he swore the first oath of office on April 30, 1789, in what was then Federal Hall on Wall Street. “If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere,” sang Frank Sinatra New York, apparently rightly. In exactly the same place, members of the colonists in North America had protested against the crown in tax matters as early as 1765. The Declaration of Independence of the Continental Congress was drawn up in 1776 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the war against the British, Congress fled to York, Pennsylvania in 1777/78. There he wrote the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution. Then he moved back to Philadelphia, but went on to Princeton (New Jersey), Annapolis (Maryland), Trenton (New Jersey) and New York – Sinatra sang: “These vagabond shoes are longing to stray.” The current constitution was passed in Philadelphia and the Bill of Rights was added in New York. In 1790 the Congress decided to build a new capital. On the green field in Maryland, later Washington. It has been ruled there since 1800. The namesake died a year earlier.
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