Hamilton’s death was just political murder. Burr never would specify what Hamilton was supposed to explain. As regards his economics compared to his contemporaries he was Malthus, Adam Smith and John Stewart Mill rolled into one. His policies were consistently directed at building National economic strength and did just that.
Marshall was critical in strengthening the Union and his thwarting of Jefferson was a thing of beauty. Thank God for John Marshall.
We have the government we have today because of Jeffersonian democratization of the electorate.
Hamilton’s death was just political murder. Burr never would specify what Hamilton was supposed to explain.
The longstanding rumor is that he had suggested Burr was having an incestuous relationship with his own daughter. No way to verify it, of course. But it wasn't the first time Hamilton's gossip-prone mouth had gotten him into trouble, so there stands a good chance that he probably said something pretty vile along the lines of what is rumored.
As regards his economics compared to his contemporaries he was Malthus, Adam Smith and John Stewart Mill rolled into one.
There was definitely a tinge of Malthus in him (which is far from a good thing), though Mill's strain of anti-statism is largely at odds with Hamilton's general embrace of the same. As to Smith, the two men were at diametric opposites. There is in fact substantial evidence in the unpublished drafts that Hamilton, along with his assistant Tench Coxe, intended his Report on Manufactures to be a rebuttal of sorts to Smith's Wealth of Nations, and particularly its well known free trade sentiments.