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.
Just as important, he had won the lasting support of America's civilian authorities, to whom he returned all power at war's end. Hearing of that gesture, Britain's King George III said that Washington would be the greatest man in history if it was true.