Posted on 03/04/2010 9:53:45 PM PST by PizzaDriver
When I read a News Item about changing which Founder appears on our Currency, I hope the Item will urge DELETING Hamilton from the $10 Bill.
Hamilton was our Nation's 1st Progressive! He spent his career striving against the TENTH Amendment. Twas Hamilton, that drove Washington to march against the "Whiskey Rebellion" farmers.
We could put Aaron Burr on them...
Looking at history through a PaulBot straw will keep your
knowledge of history stunted.
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Maybe Reagan should be on the 10 instead of replacing Grant. As Grant after all is five times more a unifying figure than Reagan. /sarc
Yeah, I read the book too. Maybe we ought to read a second book before being to insane about a founding father.
Thanks to Hamilton we became the wealthiest most economically powerful nation in the history of mankind, and without him we may never have adopted the greatest governing document in the history of mankind, the U.S. Constitution. I think a little more respect is in order.
...unreal, huh?
Maybe a little reading is in order. Hamilton left the constitutional convention in disgust because they wouldn't abolish the state governments.
...and he wrote the freakin’ federalist papers.
Some of them. His motivation was to create a national bank and the existing central government, though weaker than he wanted, was the only way to do it.
No, he wrote most of them...we all know who the other authors were.
Instead of a mile long post, just a few contributions
of Alexander Hamilton.
WannaBies just hate achievers
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, a Founding Father, economist, and political philosopher. Aide-de-camp to General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War
Hamilton studied military history and tactics on his own, and achieved the rank of lieutenant. Under fire from HMS Asia, he led a successful raid for British cannon in the Battery, the capture of which resulted in the Hearts of Oak becoming an artillery company thereafter.
Through his connections with influential New York patriots like Alexander McDougall and John Jay, he raised the New York Provincial Company of Artillery of sixty men in 1776, and was elected captain.
It took part in the campaign of 1776 around New York City, particularly at the Battle of White Plains; at the Battle of Trenton, it was stationed at the high point of town, the meeting of the present Warren and Broad Streets, to keep the Hessians pinned in the Trenton Barracks.
Washington’s staff:
Hamilton received an invitation, and joined as Washington’s aide on March 1, 1777 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
Hamilton served for four years, in effect, as Washington’s Chief of Staff; he handled letters to Congress, state governors, and the most powerful generals in the Continental Army; he drafted many of Washington’s orders and letters at the latter’s direction;
he eventually issued orders from Washington over Hamilton’s own signature. Hamilton was involved in a wide variety of high-level duties, including intelligence, diplomacy, and negotiation with senior army officers as Washington’s emissary.
Hamilton wrote most of the Federalist Papers,
The Federalist Papers are more often cited than any other primary source by jurists, lawyers, historians, and political scientists as the major contemporary interpretation of the Constitut
Err. Hamilton was against the entire Bill of Rights! He contended, correctly, that a BoR would imply powers not granted ...
I have my differences with Hamilton, but I am opposed to changing our currency. I don’t believe our currency should be chanced over popular visions or revisions of history. For better or worse, each of the men on our currency have their place in history. I have heard buzz about replacing Grant’s face, and I thought about the issue. My conclusion is that we should print I one dollar coin for each president, like we printed quarters for the states. For better or for worse, even the first black president (Obama) would get a coin, which would serve to remind Americans of their past decisions.
What he understood was how to use the power of government to commit theft on a grand scale. That is what Jefferson correctly objected to. America succeeded, not because of Hamilton and his evil legacy, but in spite of it.
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