[Captain Peter Blood]

I have enjoyed reading about Hamilton. His abilities are all the more remarkable in his far seeing approach to how this country and government can and should work.

Sadly I believe we are seeing the corruption he foresaw and I am not sure we can overcome it all.

So I leave all of you to comment.

[Starboard]

“But when we become old and corrupt it will bind us no longer”

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Old, corrupt, depraved and divided.

[Starboard]

Sadly I believe we are seeing the corruption he foresaw and I am not sure we can overcome it all.

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Our noble experiment is self government doesn’t seem to be working that well. It seems we are lacking the will to maintain our great gift.

[Blurb2350]

Yep, after several remarkable centuries this fascinating civilizational experiment is lurching to a close. “There’s a deal of ruin in a nation,” however, so it’ll be a while yet.

[TomServo]

Outstanding book. Recommended reading.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Hamilton’s original suggestion of “born a citizen” was replaced with John Jay’s suggested “natural born citizen” to assure that there would be no foreign influence on the President and Commander-in-Chief.

Some who claim to believe in the Constitution and the rule of law think the children of foreign nationals are natural born citizens eligible to be President, even if born in foreign countries.

If even those who profess to revere the founders and their achievement embodied in the Constitution won’t uphold it because it says their guy is ineligible, how do we keep it?

Anwar Al-Awlaki’s kids, born in Yemen to one citizen parent, are as eligible to be President as Ted Cruz.

[sport]

Mark

[Dalberg-Acton]

It took just 3 more years for the USSC, in Calder v Bull, to remove the prohibition against States making ex-post facto laws. The Constitution began to be picked apart almost immediately.

[golux]

The undergraduate students of our greatest colleges are lukewarm on the United States, or even their own states. They have little understanding of the Constitution and littler respect for it. They are interested, primarily, in the extent to which they themselves have been victimized in one way or another, and are experts in expressing those 'feelings," which, in turn, is why they have been admitted to these colleges. Our country's ideals are lost and a long-suffering and increasingly government dependent middle class bears everyone's burden. The cream of the crop is sour, boring, lame, morally rotten, self-obsessed, and largely "gay;" it has long been over.

[Ransomed]

A piece of paper, dependent on good people to follow it in good faith. That’s all it ever was. Less good people, the more it doesn’t get followed in good faith. I think we are pretty far down the slope.

Freegards

[bluejean]

2 Timothy 3 King James Version (KJV)
3 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Seems to be a fitting description of the last days of a once great nation.

[DesScorp]

We stopped being bound together because we allowed our masters to import hordes of the third world here, and we’re going to become a minority in our own country. Enjoy the the tribal wars that are coming.

[knarf]

Except in real time, the positions are reversed.

[Sam Gamgee]

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.