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was written in 1787 (with Washington serving as the president of the Constitutional Convention), and Washington was unanimously elected President in 1788. His runner-up, [[John Adams]], served as Vice President because that's how things worked back then. He served two terms (refusing a third, despite popular demand), then retired to live on his plantation at Mount Vernon. This set a tradition for a "maximum of two terms in office" for Presidents, which was kept until [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] was elected President ''four'' times in a row, after which the Constitution was amended to have the maximum of ten years be an actual rule. (Usually it's just eight, since the President can't serve half a term, unless he was a vice president who succeeded halfway through his predecessor's term.)
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7iVsdRbhnc The closest thing Americans have to a real-life superhero.] While he might or might not have been Batman, Washington was definitely Bruce Wayne: His extensive real estate holdings made him the wealthiest man in Virginia, possibly in all North America. A man known as [[wikipedia:Parson Weems|Parson Weems]] wrote many stories about Washington, including the famous one that as a child, Washington chopped down his father's prize cherry tree, but, being [[Will Not Tell a Lie|unable to tell a lie]], promptly confessed to it.<ref>Although considered debunked for decades, historical research in the early 21st Century indicated [https://web.archive.org/web/
[[Memetic Badass|He is also twelve stories high and made of radiation. Okay, not really.]]
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