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[QUOTE]Originally posted by glassman: [QB] here's a simple start: [i]Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1757 – July 12, 1804) was the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, a Founding Father, economist, and political philosopher. The chief of staff to General George Washington during the American Revolution, he was a leader of nationalist forces calling for a new Constitution; he was one of America's first Constitutional lawyers, and wrote half of the Federalist Papers, a primary source for Constitutional interpretation. He was more influential than the other three members of Washington's Cabinet, and the financial expert; the Federalist Party formed in support of his policies. Born and raised in the Caribbean, Hamilton attended King's College (now Columbia University) in New York. At the start of the American Revolutionary War, he organized an artillery company and was chosen as its captain. Hamilton became the senior[1] aide-de-camp and confidant to General George Washington, the American commander-in-chief. After the war, Hamilton was elected to the Continental Congress from New York, but he resigned to practice law and to found the Bank of New York. He served in the New York Legislature, and he was the only New Yorker who signed the U.S. Constitution. He wrote about half the Federalist Papers, which secured its ratification by New York; they are still the most important unofficial interpretation of the Constitution. In the new government under President Washington he became Secretary of the Treasury. An admirer of British political systems, [b]Hamilton was a nationalist who emphasized strong central government and used the implied powers of the Constitution to fund the national debt, assume state debts, and create the government-owned Bank of the United States; he paid for it all with a tariff on imports and a highly controversial whiskey tax.[/b][/i] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton gee, that sounds alot like todays system huh? history does not have an "ephemeral glow" at all my friend, and beware of people people that paint pictures with such a glow... they are usually trying to get something from you that you do not wish to part with. i picked him because Aaron Burr shot him dead in a duel. Burr was a political opponent and sitting Veep at the time... these guys played very rough.. Hamilton had already lost a son in a duel [/QB][/QUOTE]
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