maliki poseltwait, and hamilton came to the conclusion the english had the right idea. the english economic system was the perfect system. it was a system that featured a strong government, strong enough to tax, strong enough to regulate commerce, it had national government, it had a fund edit. it was, in fact, what many historians call aphis stall military state, state in which -- a fiscal military state, state in which given the economic measures that had begun to come into play around the 1690s in england, the nation had plenty of money to expand, and as it expanded, it acquired more wealth which flowed back into england and enabled it to expand even more. so that england, which in the mid-17th under, had been a rather backwater country in the affairs of europe, had, by hamilton and -- jefferson's time, become the largest empire in the western world since the roman empire. the most powerful country. the country that had won the seven years war or what we call the french and indian war, and hamilton begins to articulate this vision of the english economic system for a