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Hamilton's private negotiations with British agent George Beckwith
Hamilton and the speculators including the bailout of William Duer
Hamilton's attacks on Philip Freneau and the misquotation
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The current portrait being used to portray Hamilton at the top of the article is not Hamilton. The portrait was painted by John Trumbull two years after Hamilton's death, meaning that the portrait is merely what Trumbull remembers Hamilton looking like. There are many other contemporary portraits of Hamilton to choose from, some of which were also painted by Trumbull, that provide a much more accurate depiction of Hamilton particularly in his later years. Thank you for your consideration. UnbearableIsBad (talk) 02:44, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Is there a single reference that talks about Hamilton's reaction to the Bill of Rights after they were ratified and became law, or any discussion from him invoking them post-ratification? Or even his reaction to James Madison changing his mind and the new Congress formally proposing them? As shown in the Bill of Rights article, in Federalist No. 84 Hamilton was adamant that the Constitution was great as-is and amending it to add a bill of rights was unnecessary, but he was completely overruled and the first 10 amendments became law. But every source I can find and all the current content of relevant wiki articles only talk about his opposition before ratification, when the concept of bill of rights came up and Anti-Federalists were criticizing a Constitution without a Bill of Rights. A complete absence of content bringing up the two of them together post-ratification, nothing about his response to him losing the fight and the amendments becoming law, nothing about Hamilton mentioning them during government or politics, even in the Alien and Sedition Acts article where they were clearly relevant. 2600:1012:A021:8AD:B9F8:AE1F:34FF:D500 (talk) 05:36, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
First sentence of the Introduction states:
Born out of wedlock in Charlestown, Nevis, Hamilton was orphaned as a child and taken in by a prosperous merchant.
I think there went something terribly wrong:
1. orphaned
2. taken in by a prosperous merchant
it's a direct contradiction to information found in other versions of wikipedia
(see for example:
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Done. That took me a while
. Thanks for your contributions! Myrealnamm (💬pros · 📜cons) 21:08, 31 October 2024 (UTC)