APRIL 6, 1789 DAY IN HISTORY CORRECTION: GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS NOT ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
On February 4, 1789, George Washington was elected President of the United States of America by a vote of the ten State Presidential Electors who participated in the Presidential Election process set out in Article II Section 1 Clause 2 and 3 of the Constitution of September 17, 1787. According to that Clause 3, "The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President," that person was destined to be George Washington, however, that would not be known until those votes were unsealed and counted in front of Congress. On April 6, 1789, Washington became President of the United States of America, the Office vested with "the executive power," of the United States of America under the authority of the Articles of Confederation of November 15, 1777. The Articles of Confederation contained no executive powers because the member States retained their "sovereignty, freedom and independence" the Presidents of the United States of America before Washington had no executive power and nothing to apply such power to if they had it. The Constitution of September 17, 1787, which morphed into the Constitution of the United States, changed all that.
Yes the document everyone thinks of the Constitution of the United States is both a revision of the Articles of Confederation of November 15, 1777 and a permanent form of the temporary government set out in the Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787. These are the facts that are being hidden by misinformation that George Washington was elected President of the United States. Reports which claim George Washington was elected President of the United States on April 6, 1789 and was sworn and inaugurated into office on April 30, 1789 at high noon are covering up the failure to adopt the Constitution of September 17, 1787 and the substitution of the Constitution of the United States in its place.
George Washington became President of the United States of America on April 6, 1789 and as executive officer of the United States of America he could appoint "all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law." The Offices of President of the United States and the Article II Section 1 Clause 5 Office of President are Offices which can be appointed. The Office of President of the United States could be filled immediately as the Constitution of September 17, 1787 imposed no requirements, eligibilities or qualifications on that Office. The last requirement in the Article II Section 1 Clause 5, Office of President, would delay filling the Office of President until after July 4, 1790, so that Office has remained vacant to this day. Of what importance was the Article II Section 1 Clause 5 Office of President? That Office was the sole creation of the Constitution of September 17, 1787, and the person appointed to the Office of President by the President of the United States of America would have some of the sovereignty of the Office of the President of the United States of America although limited to the territory owned by or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States of America.
The person filling the Article II Section 1 Clause 5 Office of President was the only one who could take the Article VI oath "to support this Constitution," the Constitution of September 17, 1787. With that Office vacant, the Constitution of September 17, 1787 failed because it could not be adopted. The Confederacy, the United States of America headed by George Washington proceeded with an administration of the territory and other property belonging to the United States of America using the un-adopted Constitution of September 17, 1787 as the Constitution of the United States.
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