[Ohioan]

While I disagree with Hamilton's stronger tilt towards the Federal Government than many of his contemporaries, the essays that he wrote among those in the Federalist Papers are not that markedly different in thrust from those of James Madison.

It is a slander of Hamilton, to suggest that he would ever have endorsed the compulsively egalitarian bent in Washington today. That was not the type of strong Federal Government, that he advocated.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[justshutupandtakeit]

Slander of Hamilton became a national passtime after his death. His views were not terribly different during the writing of the Constitution than Madison, as you point out. However, he remained consistent in those views while Madison fell under the spell of Jefferson and went downhill theoretically thereafter.

He wanted a government strong enough to protect the Union and to assist the economic development of the Nation. He was an American first and foremost not a New Yorker.

[bvw]

Ditto.

[bc2]

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[bc2]

this is the Free Republic of the old days, glad to see you posting.

bc2

[LowOiL]

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