Posted on 08/30/2017 10:20:07 AM PDT by NonValueAdded
The Library of Congress has put the papers of Alexander Hamilton online for the first time in their original format.
The Library holds the world’s largest collection of Hamilton papers—approximately 12,000 items concentrated from 1777 until Hamilton’s death in 1804, including letters, legal papers and drafts of speeches and writings, among other items. Now, for the first time, these original documents—many in Hamilton’s own hand—will be available for researchers, students or the generally curious anywhere in the world to explore, zoom in and read at loc.gov/collections/alexander-hamilton-papers/.
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Recessional of the Sons of the American Revolution:
“Until we meet again, let us remember our obligations to our
forefathers who gave us our Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
an independent Supreme Court and a nation of free men.”
Dr. Benjamin Franklin, when asked if we had a republic or a monarchy, replied "A Republic, if you can keep it."
I’m sure we’ll find in there that the founders really never intended to restrict the Presidency to only those born here with citizen parents.
They really meant that anyone born here, even foreign royalty like the King of Thailand, or even if only an American on one’s mother’s side, like Churchill or Cruz or the Jordanian royal family, could be President.
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These can be downloaded in several formats, including facsimiles of the originals, HTML (for reading with browsers) and PDF (for printing on paper).
They found your stash.
Wow!
For later.
American History is first and foremost about the land.
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Excellent.
I wonder if Lyn-Manuel Miranda is reading them.
As much as I despise the foul mouthed leftist Miranda who wrote “Hamilton,” I must credit him with saving Alex on the $10 bill, and keeping off that historical midget Harriet Tubman.
IIRC, it was the intent of the Nairobi Towel Boy to remove President Andrew Jackson from the twenty dollar bill and to replace his likeness with that of the person you mentioned.
Ah, the white male purge from the face of our currency ... was that the genesis of the current statue-mania?
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