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I wish to talk a little bit about Hamilton. You touched on it but didn't mention it by name his Report on Manufactures, The gist of which was to use tariffs to force Americans to industrialize.

He evidently got this idea from Henry VII. H7 on taking the crown from Richard III's wounded head, found that the nation he so coveted was the armpit of Europe. Roads were impassable and pot holes, when it rained would drown an ox cart.

At that time England's principle export was raw dyed wool. It imported everything, silver, glass ware, silk, linen even textiles.

So Henry7, levied tariffs on export of raw wool and import of fine goods, that forced the English like my 14th great grandfather a dyer of wool, and recipient of a land grant for marrying a daughter pregnant with the child of a noble. (not my ancestor, poor dude lost his head to H7)

My ancestor was a wool dyer, by the time he died he was the patriarch of dynastybased on wool, and subsequently textile mills through the length and breadth of England as well as much land and messauges he rented and leased.

His tariff's on imports forced the English to develop their own industries, and he was so successful that his son was able to built the largest battleship of all times, the Mary Rose, with over 100 brass cannons, and a castle (None such) for his child bride Catherine Howard.

All you have to do is compare a painting of Henry 7 to that of his son. Father is dressed like a commoner in his sons court, and England was so prosperous that the son of a commoner could get a university education and serve on Henry VIII's privy council.

Commoners so wealthy that they blatantly paraded around dressed as nobles, so offended the nobility that Henry VIII passed Sumptuary Laws, limiting the dress and materials of commoners.

But Alex believed in the unitary executive, and one for life as well, that is why Mike Pence went to see the stage performance.

I can imagine Trump seeing himself as the heir to Hamilton

Per wikipedia: Hamilton and his older brother, James Jr.,[7] were born out of wedlock to Rachel Lavien (née Faucette),[b] a married woman of half-British and half-Huguenot descent,[c][16] and James A. Hamilton, a Scotsman and the fourth son of Alexander Hamilton, the laird of Grange, Ayrshire.[17]

Nee means that Faucette was her birth name. The Huguenots were crypto Protestants. Originally of Catalan, instead of converting from Judaism to Catholic, to escape the expulsion edict of Ferdinand and Isabella, they adopted a form of Protestantism, that was then making it's rounds due to one Jean Calvin, nee Cauvin, whose father was George Cauvin nee Cohen),The Huguenots shared with the Calvinists and Orthodox Jews the concept of pre destination, but unlike the Calvinists, they weren't so severe in their manners, dress and lifestyle.

Paul Revere's father, Apollonius Revoire was a Huguenot. The Huguenots were accomplished artists, artisans and silver smiths, and for that reason London Merchants petitioned King William to relieve them of the "unfair competition" that the Huguenots suffered them, so William gave them a 1,000 acre land grant in Virginia, the area recently occupied by the Monacan tribe, who died off of small pox. This town is Manakin Sabot, an independent community inside the city limits of

Richmond, VA

Oh tariffs worked then, but not now in a world of global trade, they can be useful if judiciously and selectively applied, not not as political punishment or statement as is the desire of Trump, the they are counterproductive and an act of economic war.

An added thought on Alexander Hamilton, because he was born in the Caribbean (Nevis, British Leewards) some want to make him out to be mulatto, but Cromwell shipped Irish slaves all over the colonies, including, especially, Nevis and the British leewards

Lavien is an Anglo Norman name, a friend of mine who is Jewish claims it is Levine and calls him Al Levine. This identity politics crap drives me up the wall, so many inferiority complexes, so much contention. Would there be a world of one ethnicity.

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