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A recipe to end Latin America’s love affair with socialism By Axel Kaiser “What we need in Latin America is true free-market activism led

The various Jeffersons served up by Hamilton in his essays—the epicurean Jefferson, the spendthrift Jefferson, the patrician Jefferson, the indebted Jefferson, the slave-owning, lovemaking

government—a swollen bureaucracy of 130 employees!— Chernow, Ron. Alexander Hamilton (p. 647). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Hamilton insinuated that foreigners, not real Americans, had voted the Virginian into office; he predicted that “the influx of foreigners” would “change and corrupt

Hamilton struggled with the conundrum that while Republicans might be “wretched impostors” with “honeyed lips and guileful hearts,” they had won the public’s affection.5

He helped to establish the rule of law and the culture of capitalism at a time when a revolutionary utopianism and a flirtation with

The 1800 triumph of Republicanism also meant the ascendancy of the slaveholding south. Three Virginia slaveholders—Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe—were to control the White House

Federalist Robert G. Harper mocked Jefferson as fit to be “a professor in a college or president of a philosophical society . . . but certainly not

It was very much a southern town, with ten thousand white citizens, seven hundred free blacks, and three thousand slaves. As a result, the

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