1) Nothing was illegal about the cabinet seeking advice from Hamilton. None of them had to take it.
2)Washington remained in close contact with his underlings when he returned to Virginia.
3)We were in an undeclared war with France while Jefferson was VP and he was scheming with the French for much of that time.
4) Theoden was UNDER THE SPELL of Wormtongue returning to his senses only after he left. His enemies accused Washington of being under the spell of his staff (Hamilton) even as early as the Revolutionary War.
5) I never called H “the father of modern capitalism” though I will call him the father of modern government finance in America.
1) Nothing was illegal about the cabinet seeking advice from Hamilton. None of them had to take it.
No, but it was (1) certainly insubordinate to Adams and (2) his private schemings to foment war in his letters to Wolcott were indeed criminal under his very own Sedition Act.
We were in an undeclared war with France while Jefferson was VP and he was scheming with the French for much of that time.
First, note the keyword "Undeclared," meaning it was not a legally recognized war. Second, no less a source than Adams himself was also "scheming" with the French to the point that he successfully defused the whole thing by sending an ambassador to them against Hamilton's wishes. The difference though is that both Adams and Jefferson were elected officers of the government when they were "scheming" with the French, and thus had both the legal immunities of sovereignty and the legal prerogatives of their offices. Hamilton was a private citizen when he was "scheming" to foment a war with France.
Theoden was UNDER THE SPELL of Wormtongue
Well, Jefferson did not call Hamilton's manipulations a "reign of witches" for nothing.
5) I never called H “the father of modern capitalism” though I will call him the father of modern government finance in America.
Your statement: "None of his enemies came close to producing state papers of such immense importance to the development the modern capitalist economy as were those of Hamilton"
You then backtracked and suggested Hamilton was never strictly an economist, despite directly attributing the "modern capitalist economy" to him.