[jfd1776]

Reflections on principle and pragmatism, on the 206th anniversary of the death of Alexander Hamilton.

[WayneS]

Thanks.

Many people do not remember that Dick Cheney was NOT the first sitting U.S. vice president to shoot another man.

;-)

[Chi-townChief]

Bush and Gore should have settled the 2000 election in this manner ...

[Alberta's Child]

Hamilton’s legacy wasn’t all positive. His role in the events leading up to the Whiskey Rebellion wasn’t something Americans would necessarily be proud of.

[RightOnline]

A great...if supremely depressing...read.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

About 20-25 years go, a company was given permission to make reproductions of the Hamilton-Burr dueling pistols.

Upon disassembling them, they found hidden hidden “set trigger mechanisms” inside both firearms.

It is now believed that Hamilton may have known this and “set” the trigger for a very light touch, then accidently tuched the trigger causing it to fire before he brought it up, discharging his shot into the ground.

Burr may not have “set” his trigger, then needed a more substantial trigger pull and did so after his pistol was aimed at Hamilton.

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks jfd1776. General Alexander Hamilton... left a rich legacy -- the Federalist Papers, the victory at Yorktown, the Bank of New York, his guides for the bar exam, military procedure, and the Customs ports... and the American economic system he built almost from whole cloth, the masterpiece of his years as Treasury Secretary. The man who killed him left no such legacy... the events of July 11, near the end of his term as Vice President of the United States, brought his political career to an end. Having touched the pinnacle of American governance at 45, he spent his remaining thirty years as an outcast; his fall from grace dates from the day he killed his greatest rival. One quibble, Burr wasn't Alexander Hamilton's (or anybody's) greatest rival. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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