Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
-- Alexander Hamilton
The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. Tired at length of anarchy, or want of government, they may take shelter in the arms of monarchy for repose and security.
-- Alexander Hamilton (Correspondence August 1792)
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Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
-- Alexander Hamilton
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...policy.
"She argues that unlike even the most property-friendly founders #AlexanderHamilton and #JamesMadison, 
#Buchanan wanted a private governing elite of corporate power that was wholly released from public accountability.
Suppressing voting, changing legislative processes so that a normal majority could no longer prevail, ...
There was a 45-year age difference between 81-year old #BenjaminFranklin and 36-year old #JamesMadison at the #Constitutional convention.
The gap was 49 years between #AlexanderHamilton.
I forgot to do a #WIPWednesday for a while. Got busy, but also because it's the same damn work, only longer.... Lace is a #SlowHobby.
This is an #IpswichLace replica pattern. These were found in #AlexanderHamilton's papers and patterns recreated from original samples of ~1790 #American #BobbinLace from #Massachusetts.
How did #turkey become synonymous with #Thanksgiving? #WesleyanUniversity asst. prof. #ElanAbrell, who teaches Eating Others: Histories and Cultures of Animal Edibility, said “there was an intentional effort to get people to start thinking of turkey as #American #cuisine…to distinguish a developing culture from #England.” As #AlexanderHamilton would proclaim: “No citizen of the US shall refrain from turkey on #ThanksgivingDay.” https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2022/11/22/how-thanksgiving-became-turkey-day-according-to-animal-studies-professor-elan-abrell/
