alexander hamilton did not attend. he and washington had exchanged angry letters shortly before hamilton discussed the general had warned his former aide that the army was a dangerous instrument to play with. hamilton replied it was a principal hostility to the army losing the country and in congress that made him wonder if the united states of america desert any soldiers loyalty. on the second floor washington picked up the food and it was on the table but he off if no interest he poured himself a glass of wine and raised it to his lips with a shaking hand. they quickly filled the glasses. washington key is the the officers with his lips trembling he wanted, he even had needed to break through the resentment. investing their minds and hearts he wanted to speak to the small cluster of offices and reach of the officer corps. slowly washington raised his glass and said with a heart full of love and gratitude i now take leaves of you. i wish that your leader days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been

and in 1785, one of hamilton's palace, alexander hamilton and 31 other new yorkers founded a group calledthe new york manumission society. in their long-range goal is to end slavery stated your. now it took until 1827, long after hamilton was dead, madison was the life. it took 42 years for this to happen. but it happened because some leaders decided to begin the effort and begin the ascent stick with it. so eventually slavery new york was in it. madison did nothing of the kind himself in virginia. george washington, another dear friend of madison, i'd say about 10 years in the middle of his early life, washington freed all slaves of foil. madison didn't do that. and he had some younger idealistic friends, also virginians, who had freed their own slaves and were disappointed they had not done so. he had a younger wife who is going to him. so he didn't have a free hand. a tally was much younger to james madison, much younger and martha washington was younger than george. in fact, maybe a year older than george. so when george washington frees office is coming you notice he's not leaving ma

the problem in the 1790s would be the fiscal policies of alexander hamilton. and i think that mason was almost prophetic in seeing in the broad outlines that fact. , that issues of section and class and economics would shatter the federalist coalition of 1787 and would drive federalists, particularly southern federalists like james madison, out of the federalist camp in the 1790s. and that may have been my last surprise, this idea that mason at least in general terms could predict what was likely to happen in the 1790s. okay, thank you. now, was that 45 minutes or at least seemed like it? okay. okay, thank you. [applause] i'd be glad to take questions, certainly. yes, sir. >> [inaudible] consider mason a libertarian. and yet seems to me that what you've been describing is a libertarian. >> well, there are libertarian tendencies, but there are two or three reasons why i'm hesitant to call him a libertarian. for one thing, and i didn't talk about it in these comments, he supported some legislation to restrict the sale and consumption of luxury goods. and that de

government alexander hamilton you know refer to the people it was so afraid of is the great peace in the great peace as a way people of all walks of life turned out for this mass ministries you know here in los angeles now a lot of the protesters here say they've gotten their inspiration from the demonstrators in new york and in athens and others are inspired by the revolution of egypt now there's still much debate about whether this is part of the revenue scenary movement here in america but one thing that people can agree on is that some drastic changes need to be made as to. how this country runs from the east coast to the west coast and a growing number of places in between a collective anger is unifying people. in the windy city a group has been demonstrating outside the federal reserve bank in chicago for more than a week in boston a tent city in the heart of the financial district means occupiers can voice their discontent with corporate greed twenty four seven. despite dozens of arrests demonstrators intent to show that democracy does not end at the ballot box families have a

tracing its origins today stablished one of the bank of new york at seven hundred eighty four by alexander hamilton right and those are passive accounts from old ladies sitting on fortunes and every single month they get their statement and they get out there magnifying glass and they try to figure out of the bank stole money from them this month but they're very good at doing it so they can pick it up and or other pension accounts or their teachers or their firemen remember all these public workers accounts they're being vilified because they want a living wage meanwhile their pensions are being destroyed by bank of new york and other banks so they're getting really gangbang from both directions well harry markopoulos points out in the interview that if you have a pension basically you have been defrauded by bank of new york mellon because everything passes through there that's the twenty five point five trillion asset it flows through there as the deposit back so. emphasise that point as far as the infrastructure goes and in management of the pension fund industry they because they are at a key c

is the constitution i mean if you go back to the federalist papers federalist seventy eight alexander hamilton the judiciary from the nature of its functions will always be the least dangerous of the political rights of the constitution they can make no active resolution whatsoever the simple view of the matter so. several important consequences it provides incontestably that the judiciary is beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power now right now with the power to strike down laws passed by congress and the president you've got nine guys in robes who are not elected who are acting like they're the kings of america tell me what's right about that well that's your premise and i reject that premise i think that the supreme court of the finest hours of the supreme court and then when they said no to government they said no for example like in dred scott well that's not a perfect is not a civil war to reverse the result of that case but if you want i mean i saw an example of the supreme court promise a civil war well you know what brought us to civil war was the belief on the