Commentary
Historian Forrest McDonald itemized some of George Washington’s constitutional contributions in American National Biography Online:
A mural depicts President George Washington as he lays the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 18, 1793. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
Rob Natelson
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Robert G. Natelson, a former constitutional law professor who is senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver, authored “The Original Constitution” (4th ed., 2025). He is a contributor to The Heritage Foundation’s “Heritage Guide to the Constitution.” He also researched and wrote the scholarly article “Virgil and the Constitution,” whose publication is pending in Regent University Law Review.
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