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To: Huck
Here’s Hamilton from the convention:
I have well considered the subject, and am convinced that no amendment of the confederation can answer the purpose of a good government, so long as State sovereignties do, in any shape, exist.”

Here’s Hamilton with a little bit more expanded opinion on state sovereignties (to Jefferson): "I own it is my own opinion, though I do not publish it in Dan or Bersheba, that the present government is not that which will answer the ends of society, by giving stability and protection to its rights, and that it will probably be found expedient to go into the British form. However, since we have undertaken the experiment, I am for giving it a fair course, whatever my expectations may be. The success, indeed, so far, is greater than I had expected, and therefore, at present, success seems more possible than it had done heretofore, and there are still other and other stages of improvement which, if the present does not succeed, may be tried, and ought to be tried, before we give up the republican form altogether; for that mind must be really depraved, which would not prefer the equality of political rights, which is the foundation of pure republicanism, if it can be obtained consistently with order. Therefore, whoever by his writings disturbs the present order of things, is really blameable, however pure his intentions may be, and he was sure Mr. Adams' were pure."

And here’s Hamilton’s view of what constitutes “good” government:
“which would have been in fact a compromise between the two parties of royalism and republicanism. According to this, the executive and one branch of the legislature were to be during good behavior, i.e. for life, and the governors of the States were to be named by these two permanent organs. This, however, was rejected; on which Hamilton left the convention, as desperate, and never returned again until near its final conclusion.”

41 posted on 06/09/2011 2:55:14 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: YHAOS

Hamilton was big gubmint all the way. It’s well known. What’s your point?


45 posted on 06/09/2011 5:50:53 PM PDT by Huck (The Antifederalists were right.)
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