We must all hang together, or we will surely hang separately.

~Benjamin Franklin

Powerful and intelligent people were being subjugated and they wanted to flex their muscle on the world’s stage. Britain had grown fat on the success of the colonies but continued to treat them only as second class citizens. Washington, for example, had his beef with the British escalate because they refused to promote him militarily in the same way they would native Britons.

British traders were racking up inaccurate debts with the prominent Americans they were trading with and this also pissed off the growing middle class.

During our Revolution, our merchant class was smart, powerful, and motivated. More importantly, they were on a whole a moral lot with strong convictions that they were doing God’s work on History’s biggest stage.

On the flip side, even Jefferson and Madison, who favored no central government, strongly supported the rule of Washington. Andrew, you must understand that there has never been an American who has been so revered. While he was living, Washington was viewed with awe as the closest thing to a real superhero that this country has ever seen.

He was humble, astute, and a natural leader. He was the only person who all the other founding fathers listened to and defaulted. He was also the only president to be unanimously elected. Washington felt he should not set an example of lifelong rule as an administrator, and that earned him the nickname as the American Cincinnatus.