Redefining federalism

Washington Old Hall is the ancestral home of General George Washington, the first president of the United States of America. They American people named their new capital after this small Durham village. Evidence indicates that Washington was an important site in Celtic and Anglo-Saxon England. The spelling changed over the centuries: Wessington, Wessyngton, Weshington These early spellings meant soak or steeping in Saxon, similar to the modern German word wasser for water. A wash is also a body of water as in the Wash, a large bay on the East Coast of England. It is clear that Read more