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Over half of the 55 delegates at the Constitutional Convention served under George Washington during the American Revolution.
John Avlon, Washington’s Farewell: The Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017), 28.
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The number of maquiladoras (factories in Mexico) along the U.S.-Mexico border increased from 789 in 1985 to 3,508 by 1997.
Naomi Klein, No Logo (New York: Picador, 2009), 205. Prior to the U.S.’s entry into World War I, a German U-boat traveled across the Atlantic Ocean, docked at Newport, RI, proceeded to the Nantucket, MA area, and sank British, Norwegian, Dutch, and Canadian ships.
Justus D. Doenecke, Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America’s Entry into World War I (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2011), 218. Between 2001 and 2003, the number of wiretap warrants approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court doubled.
James Risen, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration (New York: Free Press, 2006), 58. |
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