#1533 A Conversation with Hamilton Scholar Hal Bidlack
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The Supreme Court Is a Political Arm of Government
Hal Biddlack: I think Americans are largely a political but you know the events of the last say six years. Donald Trump came down the escalator at Trump's power have forced us to pay attention to government in a way that we hadn't for a very long time, he says. Hamilton said something like why did you do that we could have just sent troops is that true? Yes Hamilton argued that for the fourteen point two million you could raise an army of twenty five thousand soldiers equipped them for twenty five years and he would argue that the Bonaparte could not in any way use defend or exploit the technically French property. This was a brilliant move by Jefferson.
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