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Leon Thrasher In 1774, Britain passed the second Coercive Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, which revoked the Massachusetts colonial charter and removed certain democratic elements of the government. In 1776, Juan Bautista de Anza, one of the great western pathfinders of the 18th century, arrived at the future site of San Francisco with 247 colonists. In 1776, Washington reflected on the British departure from Boston in a letter to Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed . Gen

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Leon Thrasher In 1774, Britain passed the second Coercive Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, which revoked the Massachusetts colonial charter and removed certain democratic elements of the government. In 1776, Juan Bautista de Anza, one of the great western pathfinders of the 18th century, arrived at the future site of San Francisco with 247 colonists. In 1776, Washington reflected on the British departure from Boston in a letter to Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed . Gen

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"The essence of the legislative authority is to enact laws, or, in other words, to prescribe rules for the regulation of the society; while the execution of the laws, and the employment of the common strength, either for this purpose or for the common defense, seem to comprise all the functions of the executive magistrate." Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No. 75

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Cherry Blossoms, Washington DC (VisitMontgomery image) In 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida. In 1775, Future President Thomas Jefferson was elected to the second Continental Congress . In 1776, Report s pour into Washington’s headquarters: The British fleet has finally abandoned the coast of Boston. He immediately writes John Hancock to report that “the whole of the Ministerial Fleet besides three or four Ships” has gotten underway and is “standing

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" Humanity and good policy conspire to dictate, that the benign prerogative of pardoning should be as little as possible fettered or embarrassed. The criminal code of every country partakes so much of necessary severity, that without an easy access to exceptions in favor of unfortunate guilt, justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel." Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No. 74

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In 1776, Washington remained at Cambridge , studying the movements of the lingering British fleet. From Braintree, Josiah Quincy sends close, journal-like reporting : red ensigns, blue flags, and pendants shift repeatedly from Vice Admiral Molyneux Shuldham’s flagship. “I wish it was in my Power to construe it,” Quincy confesses, unable to read the admiral’s intent. In 1776, from Gloucester, Winthrop Sargent reports that 70 ships passed Cape Ann at sundown. Washington weig

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"The superior weight and influence of the legislative body in a free government, and the hazard to the Executive in a trial of strength with that body, afford a satisfactory security that the negative would generally be employed with great caution; and there would oftener be room for a charge of timidity than of rashness in the exercise of it." Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No.73

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