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To: justshutupandtakeit
Why don't you read Hendrickson, Morris, Mitchell, Scractner, Lodge, MacDonald, or even Flexner, Brookheiser or Alexander's biographies of him before you continue to embarrass yourself?

Why don't you read HIS OWN WORDS and stop making a fool of yourself. Even though he was a supra-nationalist, he admitted the truth about the limited powers of the Constitution, and that it was MEANT to be that way:

"An entire consolidation of the States into one complete national sovereignty would imply an entire subordination of the parts; and whatever powers might remain in them, would be altogether dependent on the general will. But the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, exclusively delegated to the United States." (emphasis his)- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Essay 32

The objectors do not advert to the natural strength and resources of state governments, which will ever give them an important superiority over the general government...Whenever, therefore, Congress shall mediate any infringement of the state constitutions, the great body of the people will naturally take part with their domestic representatives. Can the general government withstand such a united opposition? Will the people suffer themselves to be stripped of their privileges? Will they suffer their legislatures to be reduced to a shadow and a name? The idea is shocking to common sense." ... "The states can never lose their powers till the whole people of America are robbed of their liberties. These must go together; they must support each other, or meet one common fate." - Alexander Hamilton, New York Constitutional Convention, 1787

"The plan of the convention declares that the power of Congress...shall extend to certain enumerated cases. This specification of particulars evidently excludes all pretension to a general legislative authority, because an affirmative grant of special powers would be absurd, as well as useless, if a general authority was intended." - Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Essay 83

"The United States, in their united or collective capacity, are the object to which all general provisions in the Constitution must necessarily be construed to refer." (Emphasis HIS) - Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Essay 38 (Notice how he makes it explicitly clear that the term 'UNITED STATES' does not refer to a singular group of people within a geographical area, but to the STATES as a plural collective.)

"The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation." - Alexander Hamilton, New York Ratifying Convention, June 17, 1788


742 posted on 08/28/2003 8:10:33 PM PDT by thatdewd (Veritas Vos Liberabit)
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To: thatdewd
While it is always good to have Hamilton's words recalled they do not dispute anything I have claimed he believed. Just what do you think they are disputing?

Hamilton was a Nationalist just like Madison and even Jefferson were during the early 1780s. Just like Washington and Jay and Marshall and all the greatest of the Founders always were.

Not quite sure who you are arguing with but I appreciate the attention.
746 posted on 09/02/2003 8:35:03 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree. Bush must be destroyed.)
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