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[GenrXr]

At breakfast yesterday someone at the table commented Hamilton wanted a Monarch as opposed to an executive with the powers given by the constitution. I tried to explain how inaccurate this was and eventually told the person proof would be forthcoming. After buying a paperback edition of the Federalist Papers to give to the person, I decided to read papers 67-70 to mark the main points. It was Hamilton who argued in the papers for our executive branch and its powers as defined by the Constitution and while powerful, they are hardly the powers of a Monarch.

While reading paper 70 Hamilton warns of Kerry, McCain, Pelosi, Dean, Reid & the rest.

As the years pass my fondness for Hamilton grows.

Hamilton writes,

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. But if they have been consulted and have happened to disapprove, opposition then becomes in their estimation an indispensible duty of self love. They seem to think themselves bound in honor, and by all the motives of personal infallibility to defeat the sucess of what has been resolved upon, contrary to their sentiments. Men of upright, benevolent tempers have too many opportunities of remarking with horror, to what desperate lengths this disposition is sometimes carried, and how often the great interests of society are sacrificed to the vanity, to the conceit and to the obstinacy of individuals, who have credit enough to make their passions and their caprices interesting to mankind. Perhaps the question now before the public may in its consequences afford melancholy proofs of the effects of this despicable frailty, or rather detestable vice in the human character.
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[Me#1You#10]

Quite a remarkable quote genrxr...almost as though he knew the aforementioned intimately.

[GenrXr]

[dusty]

Oh that's good GenrXr. Hamilton was a seer I do believe.

He was damn sure writing expressly about the attitude the Commiecrats are displaying in the halls of Congress at the present time.

Dusty
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[I B Squidly]

In today's "Opinion Journal" Taranto has sport with the reasoning of the Hate America First crowd by quoting another old dead white guy (and everyone's favorite science fiction writer), Robert Heinlein:

[shawa]

Thanks for the quote, GenrXr!!
I appreciate your sense of the history of our country and
the insight and intent of our founding fathers.
IMO, too many of the younger generation have no clue as to the wisdom and prescience of those old dead white men. I blame our deteriorating education system (thanks to the Left). With each new update of history texts, PC and multiculturism has shifted emphasis away from the Founders.
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“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” (Thomas Paine, 1776)

[3rd gen Navy]

Hamilton AND Heinlein...two of my personal faves....if you need a Reader's Digest condensed version of the latter, I reccomend picking up the Notebooks of Lazarus Long...
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Sean G. Smith,
RN, BSN, EMT-B, U.S. Navy, 1994 - 2003.
BS Biology, Business Administration, Nursing
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