Posted on 11/19/2010 1:12:45 PM PST by Pyro7480
On Thursday's Parker-Spitzer, CNN's Kathleen Parker bizarrely and inaccurately claimed that Alexander Hamilton came to the United States illegally and drafted the Constitution: "Let's remember...a lot of Americans did come through the back door such as Alexander Hamilton. He got off the boat from the West Indies, and all he did was write the Constitution and become the first Secretary of the Treasury."
Parker raised this false history during a discussion of Pedro Ramirez, Fresno State University's student body president, who was outed as an illegal immigrant by a student newspaper. After playing clips from Ramirez and his opponent during the student election, who is also the president of the Fresno State College Republicans, the CNN host displayed sympathy for the college student: "This is kind of a classic though, isn't it, really? I mean, you've the college Republican versus the illegal immigrant, and it's kind of a classic clash, you know, that corresponds to this immigration debate we're having in this country. And clearly, when you put a human face on the illegal immigrant, it's a different story. I mean, nobody wants to punish this young 22-year-old."
...Actually, Hamilton came to New York City from the British West Indies in 1774 to study at King College, which was renamed Columbia University after the American War for Independence. Of course, New York was still a British colony at this point, so the young Hamilton didn't "come through the back door."
More importantly, Hamilton didn't write the Constitution- that credit generally goes to James Madison....
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I’ve seen the place. The modern seacoast barriers are of RECENT origin BTW.
She is insane
Gouverneur Morris wrote the Constitution. Hamilton was on the Committee on Style as well. Hamilton was more responsible for its creation and ratification than any other many being the first to call for a new constitution and then writing two thirds of the Federalist which argued for its acceptance.
He also led the NY Ratification Convention to ratify despite the fact that the political opposition led by Gov. Clinton had a two thirds majority initially against it.
It was not an accident that despite not being born in a colony Hamilton was made eligible to be president. He came to this country probably in October of 1772. Thus, he resided here more than the 14 yrs required to be eligible for the presidency as specified in the Constitution.
He was the chief aide to Washington during almost the whole of the Revolutionary War and was like the son George never had. He trusted Hamilton more than any man.
Outside of Washington Hamilton was the most remarkable of the Revolutionary generation and was as responsible as anyone for the great initial success of the new nation. A great American Hero.
You know nothing of Hamilton from that 100% false remark.
Tom “The Liar” Jefferson did a number on the far greater man which has ruined his reputation for over 200 yrs. Of course, he also did a number on the asshat who killed him too. He was a mountain of duplicity a true Democrat.
He was only speaking of the functional role of the Executive.
He never proposed a nobility or inherited Executive and repeatedly said that a monarchy was foreign to the spirit of the American people. Jeffersonian slanders made the ridiculous claim that H. was a monarchist. His press liars ran with it.
As for Thomas DiLorenzo, don't make me laugh. He despises Hamilton, but as a paleoconservative he likes economic protectionism, except when it was supported by Lincoln. He claims to be part of an old tradition, when paleoconservatism was created in the 1980s in protest to Mel Bradford not becoming director of the NEH. Thomas DiLorenzo lives in a sounding chamber of lunacy where Hamilton = Lincoln = Roosevelt = Obama.
Hamilton is the reason Washington DC exists. Madison saw it burned under his administration because he failed to heed Hamilton and Washington’s warnings.
Parker is an imbecilic ignorant twit
Hamilton came into a British colony (New York) before the United States of America even existed.
Are you also asserting Romney is not a citizen of the United States?
Adams was fond of referring to him as “...the bastard son of a Scottish peddlar.”
Wow! Not exactly Ivy League - although I mean no offense to Florida State.
And this ignorant woman DARES to question Sarah’s brains and education?
After a thorough search all I could find of Lee’s court martial is that Lord Stirling presided, with both prosecuting officers and defendants lawyers listed as unknown.
No, I never heard that phrase. Must be a Yankee thing.
How do you uppity remarks excuse the sorry Fed Reserve of today?
Do you have any idea of the consequeces of borrowing or printing our way out of debt have had on our current condition?
Thomas Jefferson said:
“To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we (will then) be taxed in our meat and our drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they (will) be happy.”
What you have to do is search for the MEMBER, then for Lee. If you do it the other way around it's just awful.
I've even found the situation referenced in a book on George Rogers Clark, and also in various documents submitted by Revolutionary War soldiers pursuing a government pension in their old age.
There are also THREE major Alexander clan settlements ~ and early writers talked about the settlement areas as if the others didn't exist. Fur Shur they swapped cousins for marriage purposes.
We have a line of Benjamin and William Alexanders running back centuries, and doggone if that's not one devil of a genealogical trail ~ and sometimes a man would have two Williams, and three Benjamins (just in case somebody died there'd be a spare).
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