[Shadow_Group] Fw: A Pop Quiz for all of you Constitutionalists and history buffs....

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A Pop Quiz for all of you Constitutionalists and history buffs....

Who was the very first President of of America?

Scroll Down to see if your answer is correct...






George Washington is your answer?  YOU ARE WRONG.  

George Washington was NOT America's first President.  He was our eleventh
President.  Betcha you didn't know that.  

"Contrary to the thinking of the public today, the United States of
America was not formed in 1789 with the adoption of the Constitution
after the ratification process had been successful.  Yet, this is what we
have been taught or led to believe.  Along with that teaching we were
taught of the greatness of George Washington, who was alleged to us to be
the first president and the Father of our country.

Why (were we) misled in grade school?  When the information below was
relayed to some of my friends, they seemed upset with me.  Some simply
did not believe what I told them...."  (The Barnes Review, A Journal of
Nationalist Thought and History - November/December, 2004.
www.barnesreview.org<http://www.barnesreview.org/>, article "George Washington wasn't our First
President by Vance Beaudreau.)

(article excerpted.  Be sure to subscribe to TBR and get the real deal,
or reference their website, above.)

P.S. "Samuel Huntington assumed the office of president when the Articles
of Confederation were ratified March 1, 1781, thereby becoming the first
U.S. president to serve in office.  On July 10, 1781, Thomas McKean was
elected and accepted, becoming the second president of the United States
in Congress Assembled.  John Hanson was the third president of the United
States in Congress Assembled.  Hanson was the first president to serve
the prescribed full one-year term (1781-82) under the Articles of
Confederation.  The first president of the Continental Congress of the
United Colonies of America was Peyton Randolph.  The first president of
the Continental Congress of the United States of America was John
Hancock.  Hancock served from July 2, 1776 to October 29, 1777.  John Jay
was chosen by his peers to succeed Henry Laurens as President of the
United States serving a term from December 10, 1778 to September 27,
1779.  Laurens served from Novermber 1, 1777 to December 9, 1778.  Cyrus
Griffin was the 10th President of the United States in Congress
Assembled, serving from January 22, 1788 to March 4, 1789." (TBR)

 
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