Who do you think had a more enduring vision of the United States? For me it would definitely have to be Alexander Hamilton. I have three reasons why I love him. He got America a new Constitution, he was against slavery, and he wrote a majority of the Federalist papers.

The Articles of Confederation were complete junk. They were literally just an outline of the rules they wanted to get some form of Government started. They weren’t very well thought out, which made it even worse because the thing they needed most at the time was some sort of good constitution. Alexander Hamilton realized this (being who he was) and got people together and forced them to come up with something better. The result was the Constitution of The United States, which might I point out is what we still use to this day.

Alexander Hamilton was completely against slavery. He wrote it all over his writings. Yes, he did believe that colored people were inferior to white men, but that was just what everyone was raised to believe back then. Thomas Jefferson was the opposite of Hamilton. He owned several slaves and treated them horribly. Even after he died, he didn’t even release them. I believe that people took in to account Hamilton’s view on slavery. He was an influence to America that slavery was wrong, and that people, all colors, were created equal.

The Federalist Papers were a series of 85 pages that promoted the ratification of The Constitution. Alexander Hamilton wrote 52 of them. He is basically the majority of the reason we have rights, people. I would like to see someone top that. So obviously he left an enduring vision for history. Yes, I will acknowledge the fact that Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. But that wasn’t his vision, those were other peoples thoughts that he wrote on paper. Hamilton’s vision gave us our American Rights.

In conclusion, I believe Alexander Hamilton had a more enduring vision for America because he got people to create a new Constitution, he left a message that slavery was wrong entirely, and wrote the majority of the papers that got the states to ratify the constitution that we still use today. So in my opinion, Alexander Hamilton wins this debate by a landslide.