To: justshutupandtakeit; billbears
Hamilton's reaction to Shays' Rebellion is telling, warning about how awful it would have been had the rebels been led by a Caesar or Cromwell. Hamilton wanted a strong but responsible government in order to prevent the situation from devolving into tyranny, what usually happened to republics.
254 posted on
07/25/2003 7:04:07 AM PDT by
Grand Old Partisan
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To: Grand Old Partisan
That also points out the willingness to lie which the Jeffersonians had. They called Hamilton a would be Bonaparte when obviously he and Caesar gained power through pushing the programs of the Popular parties of their days not the conservative ones.
274 posted on
07/25/2003 12:23:44 PM PDT by
justshutupandtakeit
(RATS will use any means to denigrate George Bush's Victory.)
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