He intentionally fired into
the air, but his political rival, Vice-President Aaron Burr, took
deadly aim and fatally shot him in a duel JULY 11, 1804.
Alexander Hamilton was born in the West Indies.
He fought in the Revolution, being an aide-de-camp to General Washington.
During the Revolution, Alexander Hamilton wrote "The Farmer Refuted," February 23, 1775, stating:
"The Supreme Being gave existence to man, together with the means of
preserving and beautifying that existence...and invested him with an
inviolable right to personal liberty and personal safety."
Alexander Hamilton continued:
"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records.
They
are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature,
by the Hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured
by mortal power."
Alexander Hamilton concluded:
"Good and wise men, in all ages...have supposed that the Deity, from
the relations we stand in to Himself, and to each other, has
constituted an eternal and immutable law, which is indispensably
obligatory upon all mankind...
This is what is called the law of nature...dictated by God himself."
Get the book, Miracles in American History - 32 Amazing Stories of Answered PrayerAlexander Hamilton helped write the U.S. Constitution, stating at the Constitutional Convention, June 22, 1787:
"Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
There
may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from
more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind is
more honest that they are."
After the Constitution was written, Alexander Hamilton helped convinced the States to ratify it by being one of the authors of
The Federalist Papers.
Alexander Hamilton wrote of the Constitution:
"I sincerely esteem it a system which without the finger of God, never
could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of
interests."
Hamilton
pushed Congress to have ships, called Revenue Cutters, to guard the
coasts from piracy, collect revenue and confiscate contraband, thus
beginning of the U.S. Coast Guard.
Opposed
to slavery, Hamilton and John Jay founded the New York Manumission
Society which successfully helped pass legislation to end New York's
involvement in the slave trade in 1799.
Alexander
Hamilton was the first Secretary of the U.S. Treasury - his statue is
at the south entrance of the Treasury building in Washington, DC.
He served as Senior Officer of the United States Army during a threatened war with France in 1799.
During the 1800 election, Alexander Hamilton was instrumental in Thomas Jefferson being chosen as President over Aaron Burr.
Before
the 1804 election, Alexander Hamilton threatened to withdraw from the
Federalist Party if it chose Vice-President Aaron Burr as its
Presidential Candidate.
Hamilton began organizing The Christian Constitutional Society.
On April 16, 1802, Alexander Hamilton wrote to James Bayard:
"Let an association be formed to be denominated '
The Christian Constitutional Society,' its object to be first: The support of Christian religion; second: The support of the United States."
Alexander Hamilton warned:
"Liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole human race...
Civil liberty...cannot be wrested from any people, without the most manifest violation of justice."
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