RAYMOND SMOCK

(Raymond W. Smock)


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Raymond Smock

James Madison was the Speaker of the House. But he also wrote many speeches for George Washington. He even wrote some of Washington’s Messages to Congress. Then as the Speaker, he would write the reply to Washington’s message that he had written.
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Madison was the first Presidential Speech Writer.

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The Constitution was actually published in two languages in 1787: English and German.
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There are many Americans who resent the fact that states and localities publish official documents in Spanish and other foreign languages as well as English. They often argue that the Founders wanted English to be the only language of the American government. It comes as a shock and surprise that the Constitution was published in English AND German to reach the many German immigrants who were a part of early America.

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Raymond W. Smock is an American historian, who is the Director Emeritus of the Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education at Shepherd University, and formerly the Historian of the United States House of Representatives (1983-1995).