Happy Birthday, America

[AirsoftCorps]

another side side note - if you would like to read about our other 10 Presidents before Washington, check out President Who, by Stanley Klos...good book (my copy is signed by the author! - lol) yup, I'm a nerd.

[slickridley]

Oh...side note - We actually declared ourselves free and independent at the Pennsylvania Colonial Statehouse on July 2, 1776, and on July 4, 1776 the Declaration of Independence was passed. If you want to get technical about what we were called back in 1776, it was actually the United Colonies of America...I believe you will find that the first federal charter of the United States took effect on March 1, 1781. This was when the Continental Congress deemed the Perpetual Union of the United States of America under the Articles of Confederation fully ratified. The Secretary entered the name of United States in Congress Assembled on the top of the Journal March 2, 1781, role was then taken, and Samuel Huntington was entered into the records as President (note that the Library of Congress holds the Journals of Congress and of the United States in Congress Assembled for the year 1781, and I have a copy on my bookcase, hehe.) So, the first President of the United States in Congress Assembled under the ratified 1781 Articles of Confederation, our First Constitution, was actually Samuel Huntington. George Washington was the first President of the United States under the ratified 1788 US Constitution. We had 10 Presidents prior to George Washington. Isn’t history fun!

awwwww yeeeahhhh!! North American History 102!