Signing Their Rights Away
“is one of the most impressive and controversial framers of the Constitution. His list of enemies was nearly as long as his list of accomplishments, but the latter has certainly stood the test of time, establishing Alexander Hamilton as a major architectural force in the birth of the U.S. government.Most of his fellow signers hailed from privileged backgrounds. Hamilton, however, was born out of wedlock to a French mother and a Scottish father in the British West Indies. His father split, his mo...ther died, and by age thirteen Hamilton found himself alone in the world. But the boy was sharp. He apprenticed to a merchant in town, but his intellect and ambition craved more. When a great hurricane struck the islands in 1772, he wrote a letter describing it, which ended up printed in the local newspaper. Hamilton’s writing was impressive, prompting Nicholas Cruger, one of his bosses, and local Presbyterian minister Hugh Knox to raise funds to send him to America. They packed him off with a bit of money and several letters of introduction.MoreLess
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