Didn’t Hamilton get killed in a dual?
Otherwise, he might have been president,
and we’d be where we are today with the fedgov 20 years earlier?
It is an interesting thought exercise.
If Hamilton had not been killed, might he have become the 4th President? If so, might the War of 1812 not have happened? Would it still have happened but turned out differently? Might Hamilton have negotiated a reunification with England?
Might Hamilton instead have become the 5th President, displacing James Monroe? Would we still have had a Hamilton Doctrine declaring America free from future European colonization, or might America have developed into regional countries across the continent like Europe and South America?
-PJ