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Show It is sometimes said that we would have hud some sort of a limited monarchy if H amilton's ideaVl had prevailed at the time of tre formation of the coustitu- , tion. Perhaps we would ha7e had a constitution if tnero had been no Hamilton Ham-ilton but it would have been a rope of sand. That great statesman bore a most couspicunus part in the formation , of our instrument of organic law; and , after it was framed he saved it from , falling to the ground through the refusal re-fusal of a number of the states to ratify it. To Alexander Hamilton, more 1 than to any other man, more perhaps j than to any other dozen men, do we owe the blessings which the constitution has . secured to us. His .untimely, tragic death has somewhat clouded his mem- ' ory, but as the student delves into American history he finds that in the critical period succeeding the war of the revolution, there was one mind which the nation could not have spared from its councils the mind of Alexander Alexan-der Hamilton. Men may throwstuiies , at his conceptions of popular government, govern-ment, but every step of our history proves that they were correct, and that in tho work done by his tongue and his pen in connection with the constitution, he saved all and more than Washing- ; ton won with the sword, |