Alexander+Hamilton

Anthony Iosua Alexander Hamilton __**Alexander** **Hamilton**__

__ Introduction __
 * What do you think would happen if we didn't have free speach, or be free and we had a king? That would have happend if we didn't have the delegates to set up the government. The constitution convention decided that the government needed to fix the government. They were sick of having a king and so they decided for a free country. One of those delegates was Alexander Hamilton. **

__Backround__ **Alexander Hamilton was one of the most infuential of the United States' founding fathers. He was born on a West Indian Island of Nevis, sometime in 1755. He spend most of his young life as a clerk (being very poor). He was sent to New York City by his guardian, a merchant. The Merchant, named Nicholas Cruger, wanted to enroll him in the College of New Jersey. They said no to accelerate his studies and then inrolled at King's College, what is now Columbia University. In 1774-1775 he entered the dispute between the American colones and the British government. He did this by writing many letters filled with doctuments of rebellions and natural rights from John Locke. He established a militia and found in battles around New York City. He graped George Washington's attention that led him to a commission as a lieutenant colonel in the Continential army. He served with Washington for four years. He married Elizabeth Schuyler, a daughter of a rich general. Shorly after leaving the army he went to legal practice. Well befor his 30th birthday he had a good military career. he knew most of the leadersif the American Revolution, and had high social standing.** __ Role __** Elected a memmber of the Continental Congress he saw what happens when there is no central government. Hamilton approved of the Constitution though he thought is wasn't as strong as it should be but he left the convention at the end of June. With John Jay and James Madison,he wroe a seriesof papers urging the people of New Yorkto ratify the new constitution. His amazing essays on the idea of havng a strong central government and having the tree branches became classic statements of his political ideas. Hamilton was the first secretaryof the treasury under the new constitution. Holding his office from Sept. 11, 1789 till Jan. 31 1795, he proved to a good choice because he sent reports to the Congress on the public credit and the national bank. He also said to Congess that if the nation was to grow and prosper would have to both encourage foreign and domestic investment. **

__ DBQ __

** Federalism: Alexander Hamilton was for federalism because he also wrote the federalist papers. Never mind that he was trying to encourage all to agree to the Constitution, but after it did get approved he became the first treasurer. He clearly wanted Federalism because he was a part of the Constitution Convention. Federalism was the idea that there would be three branches that would have power and not one ruler. Separation of Powers: He was for separation of powers because it was in the Constitution. It was to let the states have a little power to. An example is that the states could have its own marriage laws and the central government could take care of all the foreign trades, also that the three branches could do equal amount of things. Checks and balances: He felt strongly about this because with the separation of powers one of the branches might get to powerful. So they had checks and balances, which made sure that all the branches could be checked by the others to make sure they don’t have to much power. Big states vs. small states: He was in favor of the New Jersey plan because he didn’t think it was fair to have the larger states be let more people because the state is bigger on a map. And some of the smaller states might have more people just compacted to fit in the state. **

As you can tell he was absent most of the time. This is because he left the convention and helped write the Federalist papers to get people to ratify the Constitution. He did go to many of the meetings so he did approve of the ideas of the Constitution.
 * __Attendance record __**




 * || **Present** || **Absent** || **Do Not Know** || **Probably Present** || **Probably Absent** ||
 * **Act 1** || 18 || 1 || 0 || 3 || 0 ||
 * **Act 2** || 7 || 19 || 1 || 2 || 0 ||
 * **Act 3** || 1 || 19 || 0 || 0 || 2 ||
 * **Act 4** || 5 || 4 || 0 || 5 || 0 ||
 * **Totals** || 31 || 43 || 1 || 10 || 2 ||
 * **%** || 34% || 48% || 1% || 11% || 2% ||

Section 6 part 2: he would agree because he was the first treasurer and he though they needed to have foreign trade and progress and now that we do he would be happy that the treasury has something to spend money on. Also he would disagree seeing the debt the US is in now. The trillion of dollars is not even heard of back in those days.
 * __Primary Sources__

In the bill or rights the second amendment Alexander probably agreed with at his time but now he might rethink that. Now a days he wouldn’t like having people caring guns around because of the “bad” people out there. He would go back in time and change that so that people would be safe from harm. **

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Ketcham, Ralph. "The American Revolution." //Homestead.com//. Ronald W. McGranahan, 1998-2004. Web. 29 Apr. 2010. []