George Washington
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in the texts
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
Statesman cited alongside Franklin as an example of receiving only expenses rather than compensation for public service.
and Washington would only receive his expenses for all his services.
Presidents Washington and Adams, all the successive members of the cabinet and congress itself, concurred in the principles advanced by these gentlemen.
In Marshall’s life of Washington, vol.
Law in a Free State
First President of the United States, invoked in an anecdote about limiting the size of the standing army.
When a Senator proposed to limit the standing army of the United States to three thousand, George Washington agreed, on condition that the honourable member would arrange that the country should never be invaded by more than two thousand.