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To: Publius; Sherman Logan
He was the Bill Clinton of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a man of infinitely flexible principles.

That is the sort of gratuitous insult that could render your view of late 18th century events as infinitely infantile.

85 posted on 08/28/2013 2:32:49 PM PDT by Jacquerie (To restore the 10th Amendment, repeal the 17th.)
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To: Jacquerie

I’d be interested in your view of Burr.


86 posted on 08/28/2013 2:35:11 PM PDT by Publius (And so, night falls on civilization.)
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To: Jacquerie; Publius

The comparison is not a totally invalid one.

His relationships with women were not unlike Clinton’s, though he was more discreet. One of his biographers claims he had an incestuous relationship with his beautiful daughter. Impossible to prove (or disprove) at this point, but they certainly had an unusual relationship.

His abortive expedition into the West was probably an attempt to detach the Mississippi Valley from the United States and either sell it to UK or rule it as an independent state. He most certainly conspired with the American general and governor of LA (who was also treasonously working for Spain), and with the British ambassador, taking money from him.

Burr’s true intentions are unclear, and it is quite possible he was also betraying his British paymasters. But he was definitely up to something that was almost certainly illegal and unconstitutional, though it was not proven in court, largely due to Chief Justice Marshall imposing a remarkably strict definition of the crime of treason.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burr_conspiracy


90 posted on 08/28/2013 2:58:54 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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