WI Alexander Hamilton is killed at Yorktown?

Anaxagoras

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WI, during the assault on Redoubt #10 during the Battle of Yorktown, Alexander Hamilton is run through by a British bayonet and killed?
 
The United States collapses as Hamilton cannot convince New York to ratify the constitution. Total chaos reigns after that, and perhaps the British return, or the french or spanish take advantage to grow their colonial holdings.
 
The United States collapses as Hamilton cannot convince New York to ratify the constitution. Total chaos reigns after that, and perhaps the British return, or the french or spanish take advantage to grow their colonial holdings.

Hamilton played a significantly lesser role in that than is popularly imagined.
 
Hamilton did write most of the Federalist Papers, though. That would at least have down-the-road effects on American understanding of the Constitution.

Also, without the acrimony between him and Adams, the Federalist Party would be a lot less divided... so long as Washington's administration still ends in a recognizable form.
 
Lack of ratification of the constitution and general civil strife cause Washington to have second thoughts. Congress offers him the crown of emperor and he accepts.
 
Hamilton did write most of the Federalist Papers, though. That would at least have down-the-road effects on American understanding of the Constitution.

Also, without the acrimony between him and Adams, the Federalist Party would be a lot less divided... so long as Washington's administration still ends in a recognizable form.

Yep. Though it might take a long long time--the Federalist Papers took a while to become viewed as massively important. (Largely because they really weren't.)

And yeah, I was actually thinking about mentioning that--a "Federalist" group without Hamilton's continuous egotistical grandstanding, backstabbing, and grandiose designs will probably do better. Ironically, many of Hamilton's ideas for the nation would have a better chance without having him attached to them.
 

Anaxagoras

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Hamilton did write most of the Federalist Papers, though. That would at least have down-the-road effects on American understanding of the Constitution.

Very true. Even the Supreme Court quotes the Federalist Papers every now and then.

Also, without the acrimony between him and Adams, the Federalist Party would be a lot less divided... so long as Washington's administration still ends in a recognizable form.

Without Hamilton, would there even be a Federalist Party?

Lack of ratification of the constitution and general civil strife cause Washington to have second thoughts. Congress offers him the crown of emperor and he accepts.

No way. Washington was ironclad on his refusal to take absolute power.
 
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