Minds and Mindlessness

Alexander Hamilton: Born and raised in St. Croix, West Indies. He was a bookkeeper in his family store during his youth. A young man, still a teenager working for a New York firm in St. Croix, Hamilton was inspecting cargoes, advising ships’ captains, and preparing bills of lading. Hamilton mastered global finance from his first hand experience. He was educated in the material interests of the world’s people, and their countries. He noticed how human wants interwove in the matrix of international trade.

Being a staunch believer in personal freedom, Hamilton hated slavery.  An oddity, when slavery was a major trade of St. Croix. Hamilton was a material realist, and became an abolitionist when he traveled to New York to study Medicine.

William Samuel Johnson graduated from Yale in 1744.  In 1747 he gained his masters degree at Yale and an Honorary Degree at Harvard. Reared religious, he made his legal prowess the master of his fate.  He later becomes a Colonial Supreme Court Judge. He stayed neutral during the Revolution being a loyalist, but he had a real love for the colonies. He noted the injustice in taxation for payment of the French and Indian War.  The British wanted to control North America, not the colonialists. He was the most educated with the least extremes from other authors for the U.S. Constitution. One last note – he obtained an Honorary Degree at Oxford in 1766 while trying to settle colonial legal titles with respect to Indian lands, in the British Courts.

Rufus King born in Maine of a wealthy merchant. He was a Graduate of Harvard and later a renowned statesman. Anti-slavery and education were his most noted stands. He worked often with Alexander Hamilton.

James Madison graduate of the College of New Jersey later named Princeton. Theology, history, and law were his fields of study. He was quoted saying, “What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” The quote reflects he knew human kind, and they could not be relied upon because of their animal corruptions.

Gouverneur Morris, The goal of enhancing patriotism in American history has influenced documents published by Morris, Madison, and King. To use History books or Encyclopedias, the data falls short of the rounded truth.

History was and is published as propaganda to unify a desired justice in the readers’ hearts. It is you, the American, in this case.  The purposeful literature is being taught to children in today’s schools.  Understand these writer’s delineations are to make a tale instead of reporting the facts of great people. It is much like editorialized news instead of objective journalism.  We are looking for facts and not tales to find the intent in the wording used in the Constitution of the United States. The hands in its writing have a legal reasoning as a few lawyers were in the Founding Fathers. Today’s politicians would be wise to research the past of their government without prejudice.  However, don’t hold your breath to see a change in their actions.

Looking into the American Ideal and wanting the American Ideal is different than being told what that Ideal is, and how to grab it.  Do yourself a favor, and take a moment to look.  Good Luck in your search, the truth is always in the search.