Based on 44 reviews. Write a review.Average review 5 stars -- not bad.
Gotta work on that sales rank though.
Well, Hamilton argued for big centralized government, internal improvements, a national bank, and a monarch to boot. Jefferson argued for federalism and the rights of the states to offset the powers of the federal government. Today, in theory we have Democrats calling for even more of Hamilton's ideals and again theoretically, Republicans calling for limited government and more power locally more along the lines of Jefferson. That being said, both parties in reality have hooked on full force to the ideals of that king worshipper Hamilton.
BTW, justshutup, how is a monarchy not really a monarchy? And yes I have read the book. Talk about revisionism.....
The review is void of facts and details but makes broad-sweeping assumptions. Is the book the same way?
Didn't even spell it correctly.
Consider this statement in your initial rant:
Since the GOP was created and grew in opposition to the policies and failures of the Democrat Party to extend the benefits of the Constitution to all Americans, that party's history is also examined.
Just what sort of "history" are you offering? Or let me make a point, without being cute or rhetorical. Since you have claimed a Hamiltonian root for the Republican Party, and certainly cannot deny the Republican credentials of Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President, please share with us what specific Constitutional benefits that Hamilton or Lincoln set out to extend to "all Americans?"
I know that you do not refer to the suffrage, because the Constitutional benefit to the suffrage was defined as being that determined separately in each State. It is also very clear, that neither Hamilton nor Lincoln favored what would be considered universal male suffrage, today.
But I do not want to put words into your mouth.
It is obvious that, for whatever reason, you do not want a broad based Republican Party. You want to bring back the Republican Party of the Radical Reconstructionists--the hate crazed zealots, who sought to punish the South for the War. This lunacy would be funny, if you were not undermining the fight to maintain the very Constitution, you claim to be supporting.
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that's an interesting claim from a book out to "set the record straight."
It should be a crime to have these names in the same sentence.
The triumph of the mob is just as evil a thing as the triumph of the plutocracy, and to have escaped one danger avails nothing whatever if we succumb to the other. In the end the honest man, whether rich or poor, who earns his own living and tries to deal justly by his fellows, has as much to fear from the insincere and unworthy demagog, promising much and performing nothing, or else performing nothing but evil, who would set on the mob to plunder the rich, as from the crafty corruptionist, who, for his own ends, would permit the common people to be exploited by the very wealthy. If we ever let this Government fall into the hands of men of either of these two classes, we shall show ourselves false to America's past. Moreover, the demagog and the corruptionist often work hand in hand. There are at this moment wealthy reactionaries of such obtuse morality that they regard the public servant who prosecutes them when they violate the law, or who seeks to make them bear their proper share of the public burdens, as being even more objectionable than the violent agitator who hounds on the mob to plunder the rich. There is nothing to choose between such a reactionary and such an agitator; fundamentally they are alike in their selfish disregard of the rights of others; and it is natural that they should join in opposition to any movement of which the aim is fearlessly to do exact and even justice to all.
~ Theodore Roosevelt, 6th Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1906
I'll have to get a copy of the book, looks interesting...