A Research On Alexander Hamilton's Political Thought

Alexander Hamilton was one of the most important and influential statesmen of American founding period, he was also one of the most controversial founding fathers in American history. As the founder of American government and the chief designer of American economic system, Hamilton attracted much attention of his contemporaries and the posterity. In the fantastic early American history, Hamilton's short life was just like a brilliant falling star. He was born in one and brought in anther islands lying at eastern end of Caribbean Sea, known as the Lesser Antilles. Due to his excellent talents, he was send to America to get further education, then he never come back to the islands. In American Revolution, he was Washington's aide-de-camp, also a hero of the battlefield and a command .After the Revolution, he took part in the Annapolis Convention of 1786, from which originated the Philadelphia Convention. In the Convention, he made an astonishing speech, in which he put forward his own government plan. With the Constitution's presentation, by Congress, to the sates for ratification, a battle about the Constitution broke out. To win this battle, Hamilton wrote famous The Federalist papers. The first letter of The Federalist Papers—addressed to the "people of the State of New York"—appeared in the New York Independent Journal of October 27, 1787, and it bore the signature "Publius". Between that date and August 15,1788, in various New York newspapers, 85 letters in all appeared; they were reprinted in other cities, and their favorable reception encouraged Hamilton to put them together in book form, which became a political classic. When the federal government established, Hamilton was appointed as the first Secretary of the Treasury. He designed many important and influential economic policies, which laid a solid foundation of American economic system and led America into a bright future. Hamilton's noble style made him never captured the people's imagination in a way as Jefferson did, however, his contribution to America deserves people's admiration.Hamilton's political thought was strongly influenced by classical writers such as Cicero, Plutarch, and modern thinkers such as Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, he always quoted them in his own works. Hamilton's political thought had a strong relation with his dramatic life, which was full of tensions. His miserable childhood and his experience in the army were the inspiring clues to understand his political thought. The founding era was a fantastic era, and Hamilton's political thought was the outcome of the era. As a pragmatic statesman, Hamilton tried to solve the particular...