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Hamilton married a young lady by the name of Elizabeth Schuyler; she was the daughter of a general. This put Alexander Hamilton in the middle of New York’s politics. In 1782, Hamilton was elected to the Continental Congress. As Alexander Hamilton’s political career began to get under way, things seem to be going as planned. He played a major role in the constitution. He was one of America's first Constitutional lawyers, and wrote most of the Federalist Papers, a primary source for Constitutional interpretation. He was perhaps the best lawyer in America at the time of his death and his views were remarkably consistent and coherent. He also had a clear vision of the new nation and believed that it could learn much from British economic policy and governmental practice.

John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, on the family farm in the North Precinct of Braintree, Massachusetts. He was the second of five children to his parents John and Susanna Boylston Adams. John's father was his role model because he wasn't only a farmer by trade, but he also took on many other time consuming jobs around the community to help others. Everyone in his hometown in some way dealt with him because he owned the titles of: the deacon of the church, selectman, tax collector, constable, and the lieutenant of the militia. John's mother was from a very wealthy Boston family, but infamous for having a bad temper. She remarried in 1766 following the death of John's father five years earlier due to the flu epidemic. John

Benjamin Franklin’s most prominent contributions during the American Revolution were helping to draft the Declaration of Independence and successfully negotiating an alliance with France. In 1776, Franklin was on the five-member committee that helped craft the Declaration of Independence. Congress appointed Congress members John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and Thomas Jefferson to the committee on independence. Their task was to write a document to explain the action of declaring independence in terms relevant to Americans and Europeans alike. Jefferson received the assignment of writing the first draft of the document. Though everyone else such as Benjamin Franklin, helped to write and revise the Declaration. Although Benjamin was sick with gout at the time of the drafting, he still managed to make revisions.

After he was convinced to start studying law, he then began to go through a long chain of jobs. At the age of twenty four, after he was in a partnership with his brother, he became the county surveyor of Litchfield County. In 1754, he became an attorney and was admitted to bar. If you are admitted to bar, that means that you are given permission to practice law in a certain court system. He very quickly proved that he was trustworthy and responsible enough to be quickly promoted through the rank of the court system. Sherman managed to become justice of the peace for New Milford within a single year of being admitted to bar. In

Thirteen months later, Ben served on the committee that drafted the declaration of independence. He contributed to the Government by serving as a postmaster general, and took over the duties as a president of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention. James Madison was known as the Father of the United States Constitution, no other delegate was prepared for the Federal Convention in 1787 like he was. Alexander Hamilton served in the legislature in 1787, which got him chosen as one of the delegates to the Convention. He was at a disadvantage against the other delegates because of how small of a role he played in the debates. He did however end up as one of the three delegates from New York that signed the finished document. George Washington always had concerns for the country’s future, so he was never a fan of the convention because of humanity’s common failings, and he realized that many citizens suspected the convention would be merely a seizure of power from the states by an all powerful central government and he didn’t want to attend because he didn’t want to appear as the power grasping type of person.The U.S. Constitution called "a living document." Though it may seem like a dry piece of paper to you, it really is designed to live and grow as the nation

As a young child William received a common school education and later on in his life studying law in the office of J. B Gordon at Columbia, Missouri, where he was admitted to the bar in 1837. At the age of 22 he

Caesar Rodney was born in Dover Delaware and is from Kent County. “The first office Caesar Rodney held was In 1755, under the royal government, Rodney was commissioned High Sheriff of Kent County Delaware.”Caesar Rodney was the signer of the Declaration of Independence, making Delaware our first state.For Caesar Rodney to do that he rode a horse 80 miles, while sick and it was raining at the moment.The effects on delaware were that by it being the first state was that it now had a reputation and responsibilities to have.Delaware is called the First State because Caesar Rodney took a heroic trip to Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence and make our state first.

In May 1787, fifty-five educated and propertied delegates from every state except Rhode Island attended the Philadelphia Convention. Important leaders were absent, so young nationalist were able to set the program for this event. Declaring that the convention would “decide for ever the fate of Republican Government,” James Madison insisted on increased national authority. Alexander Hamilton of New York likewise demanded a strong central government to

He took to his studies, which included Latin and Greek. James Madison studied under an influential tutor named Donald Robertson then he reverend Thomas Martin.3 James Madison went to Princeton for two years and was an excellent student and his studies ranged from geography to philosophy. But in 1772, back in Montpelier, Madison studied law at home but had no passion for it. After he finished college in two years, he stayed at Princeton University for another term to study Hebrew and learn

“Jefferson often referred to his college town as devilsburg.” When most young men where out drinking Jefferson was preferred to be in his books studying. It’s no surprise that he excelled in such subjects as calculus, Greek, Spanish, grammar, and classical literature. William and Mary granted him an honorary degree in 1782. After college Jefferson went on to study law with George Wythe. He practiced law from 1761 to 1774.

Alexander Hamilton played pivotal role in the war for American independence. He served for four years, some of it as a staff officer and some of it as a line officer. While working as a staff officer, George Washington began to consider him a trusted military advisors given that they both had a similar outlook on war. Hamilton and Washington worked hard and their units began to win battles together. One

Noah Webster was born on October 16, 1758, in the West Division of Hartford, Connecticut. Webster grew up in a regular colonial family. His father was a farmer and also worked as a weaver, while his mother worked at home. At the time, not a lot of people went to college, since it was expensive, but Webster like learning things so much that his parents sent him to Yale, Connecticut's very first college. He left for New Haven, where Yale was located, in 1774 when he was 16 and then he graduated in 1778. Noah wanted to continue his education by studying the subject of law, but his parents could not afford to give him any more money for school. After thinking about his very few options, Webster started working as a teacher. During his years as

Hamilton left the military in 1781. He had recently married Betsey Schuyler, and worked diligently for several months to pass the New York bar exam. Hamilton served as one of New York's most prominent lawyers in the early 1780s, and also began his political career, serving first as a national tax agent, and then as one of New York's representatives at the national Congress in Philadelphia. In 1786, Hamilton was chosen to represent New York state at a national convention held in Annapolis, Maryland, to amend the Articles of Confederation. When only a few of the delegates from the other states bothered to attend, Hamilton called for a second convention to be held in Philadelphia in 1787. This time, the delegates took the invitation more seriously, and created the outline for a new government by drafting the Constitution.

He collaborated with his cousin, revolutionary leader Samuel Adams, but he established his own prominence prior to the American Revolution. After the Boston Massacre, despite severe local anti-British sentiment, he provided a successful though unpopular legal defense of the accused British soldiers, driven by his devotion to the right to counsel and the of innocence"]]. As a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress, Adams played a leading role in persuading Congress to declare independence. He assisted Thomas Jefferson in drafting the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and was its foremost advocate in the Congress. As a diplomat in Europe, he helped negotiate the eventual peace treaty with Great Britain, and acquired vital governmental loans from Amsterdam bankers. Adams was the primary author of the Massachusetts Constitution in 1780 which influenced American political theory, as did his earlier Thoughts on Government.

George Washington had recognized Hamilton’s leadership abilities and promoted him as Lieutenant Colonel. He was also an innovator of military design, where he designed reports on the defects and how there could be improvement in the military. While Hamilton was working as an adviser for Washington, Hamilton had come to realize the Congress' weaknesses, including jealousy between states, which he believed came from the Articles of Confederation (http://www.ushistory.org/). In 1782, Hamilton was convinced that establishing a strong central government was the key to achieving America’s independence.