1. Launching the New Nation
Washington Heads the New Government

2. Is too much ambition a bad thing?

3. “We are in a wilderness without a single footstep to guide us.”
Who can lead the new United States of America?

4. Election of 1789

5. Election of 1789 Candidates Party Electoral Vote (VA) 69
John Adams (MA)
Federalist 34
John Jay (NY) 9
John Rutledge (SC) 6
John Hancock (MA) 4
George Clinton (NY)
Anti-Federalist 3
Others 7
Electoral votes not cast 44

6. Is too much ambition a bad thing?

7. “About ten o’clock I bade adieu [farewell] to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity [happiness]; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York…with the best dispositions [intentions] to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations.”
- The Diaries of George Washington

8. "I walk on untrodden ground
"I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent."
Ex. Title and Term Limits

9. Judiciary Act of 1789 Article III of U.S. Constitution 
provided federal judicial structure
Supreme Court  justices
3 federal circuit courts
13 federal district courts
State decisions could be appealed to SCOTUS
Article VI  “Supremacy Clause”

10. Federal Courts

11. Cabinet 1789  Executive Branch = Congress created  foreign affairs
 military
 finances
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