A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Today, the gun control debate has bogged down into verbal trench warfare, with opposing camps firing sound bites, infomercials, and lawsuits across no-manâs land and not having much to show for it.
George Washington was a Army leader with a great head for how to run the army. He did not want to be President, and did not do much or anything while he was in office. One thing that made him better than most was his age, he was much older than the average man of the day. allen w Â· 1 decade ago.
Yet at the three major junctions in the founding of the nation, the Revolution, the Constitutional Convention and the selection of the first President, for each position the leader chosen was George Washington. In his own day he was seen as the indispensable man, the American Moses, The Father of the Country.