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Duel Over Dinner: President Washington's Clash with Governor John Hancock Over State Sovereignty
T. H. Breen discusses
The Marketplace of Revolution:
How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence
and
American Insurgents, American Patriots:
The Revolution of the People
DateJan
21
Wednesday
January 21, 2015 8:00 PM ET |
LocationFPC Parish House
3 Church St., Cambridge, MA 02138 |
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Cambridge Forum welcomes historian T. H. BREEN as he explores one of the first disagreements over the power relationship between federal and state governments.
In 1789 George Washington returned to Massachusetts for the first time since 1776, as part of his tour of all the states that had adopted the Constitution and elected him President of the United States. Most places welcomed Washington with pomp and ceremony, including Boston which organized a grand parade. Yet Washington found himself at odds with his old colleague John Hancock, oft-elected governor of Massachusetts. Who was the higher authority, the governor of a state or the chief executive of this new federal union? What did the arrangement those two statesmen worked out mean for the conflicts over states' rights that persist till today?
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