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To: groanup

A history lesson about Alexander Hamilton? OK. He p*ssed off a common man, Aaron Burr, who shot and killed him.


10 posted on 12/14/2004 10:39:39 AM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: Mr. Lucky

Actually, AH saved the country from Aaron Burr becoming president. That's a good thing. We should be eternally grateful to Hamilton for this if for nothing else. All of the founding fathers were concerned about the mob mentality of the common man. Look at how "democracy" works in some places and you can see how right they were to have concern. That's why we are a constitutional republic. Wisdom these men possessed!


42 posted on 12/14/2004 11:10:40 AM PST by twigs
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To: Mr. Lucky

Hamilton was the "common man", born a bastard in the Bahamas in the poorest situation imaginable, he rose through hard work and enterprise to be a true success. Burr, on the other hand, was born into a landholders family. After killing Hamilton he fled to Canada, where he betrayed the nation that almost elected him President. Giving the British military information on where our troops were located and what the easiest course of invasion would be, Burr became our greatest traitor ever.

But don't let facts persuade you.


69 posted on 12/14/2004 11:58:48 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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