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From “the world has turned upside down” from The Hamilton musical
I have no love for Hamilton. He’s the reason the big banks own this country now. Too bad Aaron Burr didn’t get him earlier.
He served as an artillery officer and subsequently on the Staff of General Washington. Like the other senior military and political officers of the new country, he risked possible hanging if captured.
Alexander Hamilton lead an assault on a British redoubt at Yorktown.
He resisted the call for a military takeover of the hapless non-government under the Articles of Confederation.
He was a delegate to the Annapolis convention of 1786 and largely responsible for the federal convention the next year.
On June 18th of the convention he launched a strategic assault on the minds of deadlocked delegates. His all day speech in support of a parliamentary system as an alternative to the Randolph and Paterson Plans shocked his fellow delegates into making the decision to dump the Articles of Confederation and design a new plan of government.
As the motive force behind The Federalist, he defended the Constitution, primarily against NY Governor George Clinton, whose state stood to lose lucrative impost revenue.
As Treasury Secretary he steered the nation from the brink of ruin to a sound financial basis.
It is fair to say that absent the efforts of Alexander Hamilton, the Confederation United States would have soon dissolved with nothing to replace it.
Hamilton's curse was that he betrayed the American Revolution. His main political and economical ideas were a combination of dictatorial monarchy, centralized power, imperialism, and economic mercantilism. These were the defining characteristics of the British Empire that the American revolutionaries had waged war against.
Those founding fathers were all protectionists, especially Washington. A lot of RINO Cheap Labor Express Free Traitors™ will try to tell you differently.
Ping
Bull.
Madison was the heart and linchpin of the Founding.
Hamilton made a great contribution, but not comparable.