Over at Grasping Reality: Alexander Hamilton at the Constitutional Convention: Weekend Reading

Alexander Hamilton at the Constitutional Convention: Weekend Reading: “Mr. Hamilton had been hitherto silent…

…on the business before the Convention, partly from respect to others whose superior abilities age, and experience rendered him unwilling to bring forward ideas, dissimilar to theirs; and partly from his delicate situation with respect to his own state, to whose sentiments as expressed by his colleagues he could by no means accede. The crisis, however, which now marked our affairs was too serious to permit any scruples whatever to prevail over the duty imposed on every man to contribute his efforts for the public safety and happiness. He was obliged therefore to declare himself unfriendly to both plans. READ MOAR