Tina Dupuy: You aren't supposed to be happy
The whole idea of a democracy is accepting you'll never fully get your own way in government. Yes, I know we celebrate the imagined rugged individual pulling on his sole-proprietorship bootstraps fully autonomous while enjoying socialized infrastructure and tax subsidies it's what makes America great... and charmingly peculiar. But letting consensus dictate means all individuals at some point are going to be let down. It's an inevitability: Death, taxes and disappointment.
So you don't like everything President Obama has done? No one should. We're Americans!
Disappointment is good. The worst thing in a democracy is for one person or a group to be elated because all their pet issues are satisfied completely. Dictators are satisfied. Unanimity is tyranny. The very quotable Sir Winston Churchill once said, "Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
And if we took a vote on that we wouldn't all agree.
Our Founding Fathers get painted with a brush known as "hindsight bias." Because our government is stable with the same constitution for over 200 years we think of our founders as having planned it so they must have seen it all coming. People don't concur on the Founding Fathers'beliefs and intentions nor did the Founding Fathers themselves. They were split between the Jeffersonians, the Federalists, the Anglophiles and the Francophiles and even those respective groups were not in lockstep.
The Hamilton/Burr duel was the climax of the conflict of the Democratic-Republicans and Federalists. That Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton. whose portrait is in your pocket on the $10 bill, was killed as a result of political acrimony starting at the beginning of the country. The only thing The Founders agreed upon completely was being alive during the 18th century.
Modern politicians, like those trying to appeal to the Tea Party, will claim they understand the Founding Fathers' intentions and how we've gotten away from them. Yes, there was a perfect time in the past and if we just change accordingly we'll be perfect again.
So if the Founding Fathers fought with each other in vigorous debate (Thomas Jefferson and John Adams also had a falling out after the 1800 election) and none of us will ever be 100 percent content with our government as it is the nature of democracy why is the phrase "the pursuit of happiness" in our Declaration of Independence? Candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, Herman Cain mistakenly said "happiness" is in the Constitution. It isn't. And the phrase is now a battle cry for accumulating affluence or doing what we feel like.
Hamilton Burr Duel - News
In 1804, Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton had different opinions regarding the direction our nation should take. Their differences developed into personal attacks and ongoing bitterness, and eventually led to a duel with Hamilton dying.
The Hamilton/Burr duel was the climax of the conflict of the Democratic-Republicans and Federalists. That Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton. whose portrait is in your pocket on the $10 bill, was killed as a result of political acrimony starting at
The Hamilton-Burr duel was the climax of the conflict of the Democratic-Republicans and Federalists. That Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton whose portrait is in your pocket on the ten-dollar bill, was killed as a result of political acrimony starting
For example, after Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in the infamous duel, he fled to the Mississippi territory seeking to incite Mississippians into secession from the US government. With Spain as an ally, Burr remained a thorn in the side of the
Stones came from battlegrounds, forts, caves, mansions and the dueling ground in Weehawken, NJ, where Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr. Nothing was safe. One donor sent in a brick from the fireplace of the officers' quarters of
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So, you want to impress your friends with your extensive knowledge of the Hamilton-Burr duel. First, you’ve got to somehow bring Alexander Hamilton and/or Aaron Burr into the conversation. In response, your listeners are going to think, and hopefully say, something about the famous duel, because that’s the only thing most people know about either man. This is your cue. When you hear the word “duel,” you’ll be ready to drop some serious knowledge on their collective behinds. Here’s what you need to know.
Beyond the fact that both were Founding Fathers, who, exactly, were Burr and Hamilton?Alexander Hamilton was the very first Secretary of the Treasury, and the guy behind the Federalist Papers. Aaron Burr was, at the time of the duel (July 11, 1804), the third Vice President of the United States. Both were accomplished lawyers and military men.
What does the duel have in common with The Sopranos Besides guns? They both took place in New Jersey. The duel went down at the Heights of Weehawken, a spot that was frequently used for just such occasions. Because New York had recently outlawed dueling as a legitimate way of settling grievances, aspiring duelists would row across the Hudson River to the more understanding shores of Tony Soprano’s home state. What the heck were they so agitated about that they were willing to die over it? You know how sometimes you just really don’t like someone? That was the case here. The two men had been foes since at least 1791, when Burr defeated Hamilton’s father-in-law for a Senate seat. And it went downhill from there. Burr was a Democratic-Republican, and Hamilton was a Federalist, but that was just the tip of their iceberg of ill will. Their enmity devolved from political disagreement to gangsta rap style beef. For over a decade, the two used the press and mutual acquaintances (other Founding Fathers) to hurl insults and accusations at one another. In April of 1804, the Albany Register How well did the two men know one another? Pretty darn well, even beyond both being Founding Fathers, and the aforementioned ongoing hatred of one another. Four years before the duel, Hamilton and Burr had worked together as an early American version of OJ’s Dream Team in one of the most sensational trials of the era. In what must have been a very awkward working relationship, the pair defended Levi Weeks, a well-heeled young man accused of murdering his working stock girlfriend, Elma Sands, and throwing her body down a well. Despite a veritable mountain of evidence, the young man was acquitted after only five minutes of jury deliberation.
RT : "Alexander Hamilton won even though he was killed, and Aaron Burr won the duel. Fuckin' Aaron Burrs not on the money.u know who is?Hamilton"
Duel!: Burr and Hamilton's Deadly War of Words: 
"Alexander Hamilton won even though he was killed, and Aaron Burr won the duel. Fuckin' Aaron Burrs not on the money.u know who is?Hamilton"Hamilton Burr Duel - Bookshelf
Burr-Hamilton duel, with correspondence preceding same, etc. : compiled from files of the New York Herald of July 13th, 16th, 19th, 23rd, and August 4th, 1804
HTHE DUEL between Aaron Burr, third of the Vice-Presidents of the United States, and Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the Treasury, which took place ...Duel, Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the future of America
Describes the events that led up to the fatal duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, offers profiles of each man, and recounts Jefferson's attempts to ...Book notes
The Hamilton-Burr Duel by ARNOLD A. ROGOW Alexander Hamilton was born in the West Indies in 17$? and immigrated to America, in ijji in pursuit of an ...United States history to 1877
Hamilton exposed the plot and secured Burr's defeat. New England secession was not revived again until the War of 1812. The Hamilton-Burr Duel — This most ...The National Magazine; A Monthly Journal of American History
But Hamilton declined either to apologize or explain. Burr then sent a challenge which Hamilton accepted. The duel was fought July 11, 1804. ...Web Information Directory
Burr–Hamilton duel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Burr–Hamilton duel was a duel between two prominent American politicians, the former ... Philip Schuyler, Hamilton's father-in-law, lost his Senate seat to Burr ...
Burr–Hamilton duel: Definition from Answers.com
Burr-Hamilton Duel Dueling, used as a means of settling questions of honor, received national attention on 11 July 1804 in Weehawken, New Jersey, with
The American Experience | The Duel
The story of the conflict between Hamilton, an architect of the Constitution and designer of American capitalism, and Burr, vice president of the United States and the first modern politician.
Burr-Hamilton duel
The Burr-Hamilton duel was a duel between two prominent American politicians, former Secretary of the ... Burr shot and wounded Hamilton, who died the following day from his ...
Duel At Dawn, 1804
Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton meet in the most famous duel in American history