Did George Washington really cut down his family’s cherry tree?…. TrUe Or FaLsE?

Posted on December 19, 2010 by briannab.
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FALSE!!!

Mason Locke Weems is the author of “Life of George Washington; with Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honorable to Himself, and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen” which is a biography of George Washington. Maon Locke Weems wrote this book not to tell a story of George Washington Chopping down his Father’s Cherry tree but to show his honesty. 

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U.S. Navy Ships

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I am going to compare and contrast one of the original six ships and a modern U.S. Navy ships. So I picked the USS Constellation and the USS Port Royal. The USS Constellation was the first Navy ship to set sail. It first set sail in 1797 and was decommissioned in 1853 and it was the first to destroy an enemy ship. It was armed with 20 cannons and 28 long guns. The USS Constellation was 164 feet and weighed 1265 tons. The USS Port Royal is 567 feet and weighed 9600 tons.  It carries many  automatic cannon,automatic turrents, and many torpedo launchers.

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What would hapen if……

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……we didn’t have any electricity. Then in the winter everyone would be a lot colder because they didn’t have as good heating as they would have now. We wouldn’t have refrigeration, or a god waty to cook food cause you wouldn’t have a stove or oven or microwave. Everything would be a lot harder if we didn’t have elecricity.

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Loose v.s. Strict

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Personally I believe in a loose construction in the Constitution. If you had a loose constitution then you could do anything you want to as long as it is reasonable. Just because you had a loose constitution doesn’t mean that you could  go out and steal a car. If you did that you would still get in a lot of trouble. The ”elastic clause” is a statement in the U.S. Constitution that grants congress the power to pass laws that are proper and necessary.

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