This one is probably the absolute worst of the whole series, and I recall scratching my head after reading it in high school, even when I still believed what my teachers told me about how wonderful was the federal government because it wanted nothing more than to wipe everybodys’ bottoms for them.
History is saddened at times because of great, missed opportunites. If Hamilton had spent a bit more time on diverse pursuits, he would have invented baseball and then written “Who’s on first?” We would probably still have the U.S. Constitution, but we wouldn’t have to compare this essay to Abbott and Costello and find them to be the more funny only because their jokes didn’t actually happen.
Actually, after editing, I thought #18, #19 and most of #20 were the worst becuse of the pedantic history lessons. At least at the end of #20, they tie all that history together for a conclusion and a warning.