Burke confers on Alexander Hamilton the title of change leader par excellence. Explain what he means.
What will be an ideal response?
Alexander Hamilton was an illegitimate child born in an island in the Caribbean. He
was exceptionally intelligent and made his way to the United States during the period
leading up to the American Revolution. He was deeply immersed in the political and
social change of that era. He was a member of the military staff of Gen. George
Washington in the revolutionary army. At the conclusion of the war of independence, he
obtained a law degree and became a successful lawyer in New York City. He married
the governor’s daughter. After the failure of the articles of Confederation, he was
appointed by the newly elected president of the United States, George Washington, as
the secretary of the treasury. He undertook the unheard-of obligation of paying off the
debt of the United States and was met with stiff resistance from the individual states,
newly united, in shouldering their fair share. Having been the author of a series of paper
describing federalism, he was involved in the economic consolidation of a series of sovereign states united themselves during the war but found themselves united in every
other sense after that.
You might also like to view...
Which of the following scales might have an example that ranges from "Not Important" to "Extremely Important"?
A) Likert scale B) one-way labeled scale C) importance scale D) unimportance scale E) semantic differential scale
When the ________ command is used in an Excel spreadsheet, all the values in a column (or row) are multiplied by the values in another column (or row) and then summed
Fill in the blank with correct word.
The true owners of the corporation are the
A) board of directors of the firm. B) holders of debt issues of the firm. C) common stockholders. D) preferred stockholders.
A joint tenancy is one in which:
a. two or more persons have equal interests in the property with rights of joint survivorship b. two or more persons have equal interests in the property with no right of survivorship c. one person owns all the interests in the property, but two people will inherit equal shares when the current tenant dies d. one person owns all the interests in the property and has designated who will inherit it when the current tenant dies e. none of the other choices are correct