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I support the fact that was a brilliant Secretary of Treasury, but a failure as a politician. He was brilliant as a Treasurer basically because he was a great strategist that was very skilled and had a great intellect in economics. Hamilton's plan for centralizin ....

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.... by proposing an excise tax on American whiskey. He argued that as long as the states owed money to other nations, it could not be truly an independent nation. Hamilton's program had great success in restoring the credit of the United States. His vision of a centralized economy provided the basic model for a system that has survived to the present day. Yet, in the implementation of his political ideas, Hamilton encountered many attacks against his character and beliefs. I believe that Hamilton was a failure as a politician because he had many political ideas that were irrational and caused controversy amongst groups of people. He was against democracy ....