Wise Alexander Hamilton

Wise Alexander Hamilton “For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.” These words from Alexander Hamilton in Federalist Paper Number 1 say it all, don’t they, about the effectiveness of terrorism at any time in history? In the concluding Federalist essay Number 85, Hamilton praises the securities of republican government, to liberty, and to property to be adopted by our U.S. Constitution. It (our Constitution) will restrain local factions and despots and prevent extensive military establishments and titles of nobility and take precautions “against the repetition of those practices on the part of the State governments which have undermined the foundations of property and credit, have planted mutual distrust in the breasts of all classes of citizens, and have occasioned an almost universal prostration of morals.” Hamilton could not have foreseen that we now have 2 Americas - red and blue, liberal and conservative, 2 countries states separated by ideologies and cultures.