THE BOOK OF DAMN
YANKEES
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF MANIFEST DESTINY
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Chapter 13
With a few minor exceptions, the new constitution was a big success,
2Especially after a bbbill of rights got attached to it,
3Just to make sure that the new government would understand how much the citizens of the United States trusted them,
4ccAnd then ddGeorge Washington agreed to be elected the first president,
5By all the qualified voters in the United States,
6Meaning all property holders,
7aUnless they were slaves,
8bOr women,
9cOr didn’t have enough property.
10And then Washington won by a huge margin,
11dWhich may have been as much as a hundred votes.
12The Yanks celebrated George’s victory with a lot of parties,
13And congratulated themselves a lot on having whipped the Brits,
14eAnd on having invented a new form of government,
15fWith a great new constitution,
16Which was perfect,
17gExcept that it didn’t say anything at all about taxation without representation.
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