[DoctorMichael]

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JMHO.................In many ways the Civil War was a 'proxy' fight for these twin human dynamos: Hamilton and Jefferson.

As the article explains, we owe the mercantilization (the North at that time) to Hamilton while Jefferson wanted to sit on his slave-driven, agrarial, mountain top like a French Philosopher thinking great thoughts (Southern Aristocracy).

Hamilton, and the North, won.

[tpaine]

DoctorMichael wrote:
--- In many ways the Civil War was a 'proxy' fight for these twin human dynamos: Hamilton and Jefferson.

As the article explains, we owe the mercantilization (the North at that time) to Hamilton while Jefferson wanted to sit on his slave-driven, agrarial, mountain top like a French Philosopher thinking great thoughts (Southern Aristocracy).

Hamilton, and the North, won


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At #61 I quoted 'x':

"People lose sight of three things:
1) what's often taken to be the old order was largely a result of Jefferson's and Jackson's electoral victories, not of the ideas of the Framers, -- "


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The founders intent, the 'old order', were strong states, bound by a constitution based on individuals rights, whose rights were to be protected by a small but militarily powerful federal union against ALL usurpers, foreign or domestic..

-- The constitutions BOR's were considered binding on the states till 1833, when the infamous Barron decision, in an futile attempt to avert civil war, set the states 'free' to regulate some of our rights out of existence..

Some states still are busy writing such 'regs', -- on the RKBA's, for instance.
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Doc, surely you can see that the Jeffersonian principles upholding our constitution, -- were not the cause of the civil war..
It was the subversion of those basics which made the war, - and the 14th amendment, - necessary..