The Rising Sun
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. Today marks the end of our run through the American Revolution, a revolution that wound up taking more than 25 years to work through, from the end of the French and Indian War in 1763 to the sitting of the First Congress of the United States in 1989. It had […]
The Critical Period
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. We left off last time with the aborted Newburgh Conspiracy hatched between disgruntled continental officers and disgruntled members of Congress to strongarm the several states into granting the national government more power. But though George Washington smacked the conspiracy down before it even got off the ground, that did not […]
“The People Who Own The Country Ought To Govern It” – The Democracy of our Forefathers.
Let’s start at the very beginning. Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 – July 12, 1804) was an American statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was an influential interpreter and promoter of the U.S. Constitution, as well as first Secretary of the Treasury. Hamilton, much like the rest of the […]