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Clearly, Bastiat would not have gotten along well with Alexander Hamilton. I am continually amazed by the sheer adoration that Hamilton had for large centralized governments. I came across a speech he made at the constitutional convention where he urged that a president be given life tenure! No other delegate would go that far out of fear.

In Federalist paper 69 he asserts why he thinks those fears are groundless, and he argues in favor of indefinite re-eligibility on the ground that it would assure better performance of duties. For someone who outlines the falliability of human nature so thoroughly he seems to exempt politicians from such behaviors as if they are better people because of the integrity of the office.