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“In our progress towards political happiness my station is new; and, if I may use the expression, I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any action, whose motives may not be subject to a double interpretation. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.”

--Letter to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham, England’s first major female historian, January 9, 1790



Who is the most likely author of this letter?




“In our progress towards political happiness my station is new; and, if I may use the expression, I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any action, whose motives may not be subject to a double interpretation. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.”

--Letter to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham, England’s first major female historian, January 9, 1790



Who is the most likely author of this letter?




George Washington


Thomas Jefferson


George Mason


John Adams

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GPT 3.5
George Washington

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