Comment Re:Ignorant people sucks at names. (Score 1) 258
Each of those locale's are named after something relevant to them. They have a form of government given to them in large part due to Washington.
The Constitutional Convention was very much a consensus project, with Madison doing most of the work of assembling the agreed ideas into a single document. Washington's primary role was to keep order and enforce secrecy; he deliberately chose to provide little input into the actual ideas, as he knew that anything he said would hold undue sway over the participants.