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To: arrogantsob; All
"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."

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.

488 posted on 04/04/2016 12:23:03 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10

Totally false in every word.

Try again and this time make sense.

However, it should be stressed that Hamilton clearly was not constrained by the state first concerns which forced the convention in the first place. He knew that the states had to be curbed in order for the Union to survive. And the constitution thankfully did that.

States were not allowed to coin their own money so there was little sovereignty involved. States were not allowed to conduct their own foreign policy, to interfere with the slave trade, to have compacts with each other and all the other things forbidden in Article 1, Sections 9 and 10.

The only sovereignty left to states was the power to control matters within the state. Any dispute or conflict between states was to be settled within federal courts.

Hamilton was the greatest political thinker the Western Hemisphere ever produced and was critical to the survival of the Republic. His efforts to create a strong, independent nation were resisted every step of the way by the insidious, conniving Jefferson. Had HE been president our country would have been MUCH better off.


490 posted on 04/04/2016 12:46:58 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Nationalist, Patriot, Trumpman)
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