[TASMANIANRED]

I'm really starting a passionate dislike of Hamilton.

The US is one of the most unlikely countries on the face of the earth.

It was populated largely by people wanting to get the hell out of Europe, with the forms of government of the intrinsic oppression of them.

It was peopled largely by the destitute wanting to build something by their own labor.

Hamilton wants the yoke back on, by force if necessary.

The US was blessed up until the 20th century with the means of unlimited expansion.

Daniel Boone moved deeper into wilderness when the smoke of fires from his neighbors became visible.

We are in a new position, one the US has never faced before...When the government becomes oppressive...there is no new territory to flee too.

I'm very surprised that the Anti-federalists didn't haul Hamilton out and hang him over his coercive model.

[Publius]

We see the first bits of Hamilton's coercive model with the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794. More come on line with the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798.

By 1800, Hamilton's "High Federalists" were occupying much less political ground due to John Adams' distrust of Hamilton, and the reaction of an angry populace leading to Jefferson's victory.

Hamilton was in bad shape politically after the contested election of 1800 because half his own party didn't trust him any longer. I'm not at all sure what his political career would have looked like had Burr not killed him. He had angered too many people.

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The US was blessed up until the 20th century with the means of unlimited expansion.

Daniel Boone moved deeper into wilderness when the smoke of fires from his neighbors became visible.

Hamilton forsaw that such escape wasn't always going to be possible.

You couldn't live self-sufficiently like Daniel Boone once the country got too populated.

Hamilton also understood that any country that didn't have an army and navy was going to be fair game for other powers to pick clean.