Hamilton was the most brilliant of the Founders and saw clearly the value of a National Bank, his argument for its constitutionality was as remarkable as his writings in the Federalist. His knowledge of law and the constitution was unsurpassed.
As to your absurd Jeffersonian rant about his “love” of money, Hamilton could have been one of the richest men in America had he not given years of his life to government service. He LOVED the Union, not money and, after Jefferson’s vice president killed him, was found to be in debt. His integrity was scrupulous.
The Democrat-Republican party was founded to thwart Hamilton, a linear ancestor of our Democrat party.
Before his debt scheme and creation of the Bank we had no specie and therefore NO MONEY to speak of. Creating a National Bank allowed the government to wield powers specified within the constitution.
His financial program was so significant to our development that his deadly enemy, Jefferson, who had campaigned against it using LEFTIST arguments, left it in place during his presidency.
When stupider politicians took over later and refused to re-charter the Bank, it did not take long to realize that a huge mistake had been made and financing the War of 1812 made immensely more difficult.
Jackson’s disastrous decision not to re-charter the 2d Bank provoked a decade long recession, it took the discovery of gold in California to get the US out of it.
You also don’t know what you are talking about wrt to the Constitutional Convention. The greatest reason that the CC was held AT ALL was to regulate interstate commerce and the document did not give the fed gov power to regulate intrastate commerce. There is nothing in Article 1 giving Congress such power. In fact, interference with the intrastate commerce of slavery was proscribed for 20 yrs.
Your credibility is destroyed by your insult of Washington.
For good reason Washington considered Hamilton the son he never had and loved and respected him above all others; he was NOT his puppet. No matter what the Jeffersonians claimed, Washington was NO ONE’s puppet.
Regardless if a national bank was a good idea, It remains that his fellow delegates at the Constitutional Convention had dropped the idea. So Hamilton was one of the first state sovereignty-ignoring activists to push the federal government to overstep its constitutionally limited powers.