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Added information about Hamilton's proposals at the Constitutional Convention. This important info was conspicuously absent.
==New York==
==New York==
Hamilton became a leading lawyer in [[New York City]], and married into the rich and powerful Schuyler family. Along with his close friend [[John Jay]], he was active in anti-[[slavery]] movements. In 1787, Hamilton served as assemblyman from New York County in the New York State Legislature. He was also chosen by the legislature as a delegate to the [[Philadelphia]] [[Constitutional Convention]] in 1787, although he played a minor role in the Convention, along with [[Robert Yates]] and [[John Lansing, Jr.]]
Hamilton became a leading lawyer in [[New York City]], and married into the rich and powerful Schuyler family. Along with his close friend [[John Jay]], he was active in anti-[[slavery]] movements. In 1787, Hamilton served as assemblyman from New York County in the New York State Legislature. He was also chosen by the legislature as a delegate to the [[Philadelphia]] [[Constitutional Convention]] in 1787 along with [[Robert Yates]] and [[John Lansing, Jr.]]
==Constitutional Convention==
Hamilton, alongside [[James Madison]] and [[James Wilson]], voiced strong opposition to [[state's rights]], [[decentralization]], and [[limited government]] at the Constitutional Convention and favored a radically [[nationalist]] approach to American government. Hamilton believed that the central principle of the [[Articles of Confederation]] was the idea of state sovereignty, but he argued that this indicated that the entire idea was completely wrong. Because state sovereignty, "the fundamental principle of the old Confederation," was wholly defective, Hamilton argued that America's only choice was to "eradicate and discard this principle before we can expect an efficient government."<ref>Alexander Hamilton, Elliot II, 234. The idea is also present in "The Federalist" no. 15. </ref>
During the Convention, Hamilton argued for the most heavily centralized plan of government out of all of the attendees. He proposed making the chief executive an elected monarch who would could not be removed from office unless he ceased to rule "in good behavior." The president under Hamilton's plan would have been given an absolute veto which could not be overturned by the legislature. The national government would have had the power to appoint all state [[governors]] and would wield absolute veto power over all state legislation. Hamilton's plan also gave a life-time tenure in office to senators and to the judiciary. With his plan considered as a whole, Hamilton "advocated virtually doing away with state sovereignty, noting that as long as there was power to be had in the states, people would aspire to acquire that power, to the detriment of the nation as a whole."<ref>https://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_ccon.html#hamilton</ref>
Hamilton authored 51 of the 85 ''[[Federalist Papers]],'' while [[James Madison]] and [[John Jay]] composed the others. These essays, published anonymously in [[newspaper]]s in New York and throughout the United States, helped turn popular opinion in favor of ratifying the Constitution, particularly in the decisive states of [[New York]] and [[Virginia]].
Hamilton authored 51 of the 85 ''[[Federalist Papers]],'' while [[James Madison]] and [[John Jay]] composed the others. These essays, published anonymously in [[newspaper]]s in New York and throughout the United States, helped turn popular opinion in favor of ratifying the Constitution, particularly in the decisive states of [[New York]] and [[Virginia]].