Was his federalism experiment a disaster though? Look at the size of government and the size of those on the take? Is that what federalism brought the US? And he introduced central banking, AKA, control by banking interests, into the US.
I can understand Hamilton’s reasoning on some of these issues. If it had been left to Jefferson and Madison then we would have been primarily a Agrarian Country with no manufacturing or banking sectors. Hamilton realized we needed a Central government and a more realistic blueprint for a thriving, growing country not dependent solely on England or France.
My guess is that not even Hamilton would accept what we have become at this point. He didn’t believe in people not working and was not inclined to any kind of welfare system as we have now.
He certainly would not accept the Debt we have now. His original plan was to have a sinking fund to take care and pay down debt on a regular basis.
That is what we could use now, yet no one has even suggested that. I wonder why??????????????