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    Assessment on the Virtue of Alexander Hamilton “How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore...grow up to be a hero and a scholar?” opens the hit Broadway play Hamilton (Miranda). That question sums up the beginning and end of the life of Alexander Hamilton, a Founding Father of the United States, fairly well. He was born into poverty in the British West Indies, where eventually his father left him and his mother died. Nevertheless, thanks to hard work and determination, Hamilton went to college…

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    issues appear to hold. America is not as strong in mutual unification of freedom but rather more, every man for himself, which is a predecessor of what Yates predicted. In a way his want of more representatives, is excellently disprove by Madison and Hamilton showing that you need less representatives because with more there is udder chaos, and no real solution can be achieved with so many people and opinions. Altogether, Yates’s letter proved very eye opening and insightful for eventually…

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    the 26th song of the popular Broadway musical Hamilton and conclusion to the first act, “Non-Stop”, George Washington sings to Alexander Hamilton, before asking Hamilton to join his presidential cabinet as Treasury Secretary, “They are asking me to lead / I am doing the best I can / to get the people that I need / I’m asking you to be my right-hand man.” (Miranda). Hamilton later uses similar words (“they are asking me to lead”) to his wife, Eliza Hamilton, as she pleads with him not to take the…

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    Hamilton considered him a close friend and ally within the Forks region and since he had a vested interest in the region and the government, John was appointed to the regional inspector and new enforcer of the excise tax. John Neville was one of the wealthiest…

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    The topic of the book varies within each chapter, but in all, every chapter is about the founding fathers. From the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, to the friendship of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. The author, Joseph J. Ellis, a father of three sons, was born in Washington D.C. He is perceived as one of the nation’s leading American history scholars. Ellis attended Yale University and College of William and Mary. He has written nine books, and has been awarded the Pulitzer…

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    choice fell on Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretory of the Treasury. Having thought between two books about one of the father founders, I took the book with the best reviews I found. The reason behind this…

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    I watched the Founding Fathers documentary, episode 3. The subject of this film is the founding fathers such as, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Ben Franklin, and John Adams and how they all became ‘founding fathers’ of the United States. The film begins by discussing Thomas Jefferson and how much he cared about dependence, how he contributed to getting independence, his actions, and his more personal ways of life. The documentary eventually transitions into discussing…

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    Alexander Hamilton is one of the most important political figures in American history. He was famous for supporting the ratification of the American Constitution through writing several essays in the Federalist Papers. Hamilton became the first Secretary of the Treasury and funded the national debt accumulated during the American Revolution, and he instituted the first American national bank. Hamilton was also very famous and well-supported among the American people and other politicians,…

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    whose face everyone knows, is Alexander Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton was known as many things, a lawyer, soldier, statesman, and the very first Secretary of the Treasury in the U.S. His actions, not only helped form the First National Bank, but helped develop America’s first political party. Because of his role in the nation’s history, Alexander Hamilton is most likely recognized as the man on the 10 dollar bill. But who is he behind all these titles? Hamilton was born in the late…

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    President George Washington in 1789, Alexander Hamilton proposed a financial plan which he stated that would help gain the confidence of potential investors, those in the United States and foreigners. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison disagreed with Hamilton’s financial plan, causing there to be a major disagreement on the path the United States should take to become a stronger country economically. As this argument continued, many started to refer Hamilton and his allies as the Federalist. In…

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