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To: 4ConservativeJustices
He played a surprisingly small part in the debates, apparently because he was frequently absent on legal business, his extreme nationalism put him at odds with most of the delegates, and he was frustrated by the conservative views of his two fellow delegates from New York [John Lansing, Jr and Robert Yates]", and "Hamilton's policies soon brought him into conflict with Jefferson and Madison."

Yes. Exactly. The New York delegation was constantly divided in the convention and ratification. Hamilton penned several of the now famous federalist essays, but chief among his anti-federalist opponents was his fellow NY delegate Robert Yates, author of the Brutus papers. Yates and the other anti-federalists took a strong states position throughout that debate with Hamilton's significantly more nationalist position countering it.

773 posted on 09/06/2003 9:47:35 AM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist
New York's delegation was deliberately selected so that it would vote NO. There was never a chance that Clinton's henchmen would do anything else.

Hamilton wrote "several" of the Federalist papers? Try 2/3s.
777 posted on 09/08/2003 7:39:01 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree. Bush must be destroyed.)
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