>
> Well, yeah - but they were probably his own children,
> fa' pete's sake. To be fair, his chronic lack of
> funds had a lot to do with his inability to free more.
> But keeping people in bondage while pissing away
> money on books, wine, and additions to your house
> doesn't look too good, either...
>
> Fie on him. Give me Hamilton any day of the week.
>
> Incidentally, I've been reading Beard's Economic
> Interpretation of the Constitution recently. I'd
> always heard he was some kind of Marxist muckraker -
> turns out he's a Hamilton-worshiping Connecticut
> Yankee! Interesting, to say the least...
>
> Jim Baird
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Hamilton, the man who created dirigisme out of mercantilism, lover of
protectionism, not a big fan of civil liberties or democracy...That
Hamilton?
Ian