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To: conimbricenses

Nothing quoted shows this to be an alliance. Nor did it change much.


812 posted on 09/15/2010 8:49:43 AM PDT by arrogantsob
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To: arrogantsob
Look, I get it. You have a man-crush on Alexander Hamilton. Weird, yes. But whatever floats your boat.

It is NOT, however, to make patently counterfactual claims about his record. The guy was a protectionist Anglophile with little regard for any authority but his own. He openly stated his protectionist beliefs at several points across his lifetime, and he made no secret of his support for the favoritism that the Jay Treaty gave to a U.S.-British partnership in the West Indies trade. Britain got concessions that no other trading partner received, and they were plainly intended to exclude American commerce from those trading partners...even to the point of provoking a wholly unnecessary war.

817 posted on 09/15/2010 4:54:43 PM PDT by conimbricenses (Red means run son, numbers add up to nothing.)
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