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To: Amendment10

Totally false in every word.

Try again and this time make sense.

However, it should be stressed that Hamilton clearly was not constrained by the state first concerns which forced the convention in the first place. He knew that the states had to be curbed in order for the Union to survive. And the constitution thankfully did that.

States were not allowed to coin their own money so there was little sovereignty involved. States were not allowed to conduct their own foreign policy, to interfere with the slave trade, to have compacts with each other and all the other things forbidden in Article 1, Sections 9 and 10.

The only sovereignty left to states was the power to control matters within the state. Any dispute or conflict between states was to be settled within federal courts.

Hamilton was the greatest political thinker the Western Hemisphere ever produced and was critical to the survival of the Republic. His efforts to create a strong, independent nation were resisted every step of the way by the insidious, conniving Jefferson. Had HE been president our country would have been MUCH better off.


490 posted on 04/04/2016 12:46:58 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Nationalist, Patriot, Trumpman)
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To: arrogantsob; All
"Totally false in every word."

Regarding the controversy of Hamilton’s national bank, please consider the following excerpts from the wriings of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Madison gnerally regarded as the father of the Constitution.

Note that in his official report to President Washington concerning the question of the constitutionality of Hamilton’s national bank, Jefferson had noted that the delegates at the Constitutional Convention had discussed Ben Franklin’s suggestion to include canals in the mail roads clause of Section 8 of Article I1.8.7).

“A proposition was made to them to authorize Congress to open canals, and an amendatory one to empower them to incorporate. But the whole was rejected, and one of the reasons for rejection urged in debate was, that then they would have a power to erect a bank, which would render the great cities, where there were prejudices and jealousies on the subject, adverse to the reception of the Constitution [emphasis added].” —Jefferson’s Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791.

And since Jefferson had probably talked or corresponded with James Madison about the national bank discussion in conjunction with Franklin’s suggestion for canals, the following excerpt is taken from Madison’s journal of Constitutional Convention debates when Dr. Franklin first suggested canals.

”Docr. FRANKLIN moved to add after the words "post roads" Art I. Sect. 8. ”a power to provide for cutting canals where deemed necessary”” - Madison Daily Journal

Again, Franklin’s idea for canals was dropped over concern that canals would give the feds an excuse to establish a bank which some of the delegates expressed concern that INTRAstate bankers didn’t want.

517 posted on 04/05/2016 7:09:14 PM PDT by Amendment10
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