Clear words from one of the most important of the American founding fathers:
Upon this law depend the natural rights of mankind: the Supreme Being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beautifying that existence. He endowed him with rational faculties, by the help of which to discern the pursue such things as we consistent with his duty and interest; and invested him with an violable right to personal liberty and personal safety.
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Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804),
The Farmer Refuted (1775).
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I don't know, I'm still wrestling with the Jefferson v. Hamilton question. John Adams got his recognition when his his distant relation Charles Addams (sic) gave us the Addams (sic) family. Samuel Adams is a different question altogether: "BREWER, PATRIOT!"
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“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
Well, for me I started to appreciate Hamilton once I realized that the Federalists were the conservatives during the Revolution and early Republic, and that the Jeffersonian Republicans were largely deceptive statists who cloaked their totalitarian leanings in the rhetoric (but not the reality) of limited government. Not all of them, of course -- John Randolph of Roanoake, St. George Tucker, both come to mind -- but Jefferson and his immediate disciples were very bad news. Washington discerned this pretty well by the mid-point of his administration. Read Connor Cruise O'Brien's book The Long Affair -- it is an eye opening study of Jefferson and his infatuation with the French Revolution, as well as his embrace of a totalitarian vision of government.
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