DDH - Hamilton! (The Part the Musical Left Out)

Perhaps the best known Framer/Founder these days is Alexander Hamilton. But, as the case may be, not for the reasons for which he would have liked to had remembered, or had sung about in a Broadway musical.

Hamilton had been one of the men who had pushed hard for the Philadelphia Convention. He had also fully expected to be one of its leaders (a story oddly absent from the musical). What he had not expected was to be a third wheel on the New York delegation, constantly thwarted by the duo of Clinton supporters who disagreed with him on pretty much everything, putting New York firmly in the camp of the small States who were opposing the Virginia Plan.

This week, he makes the fateful decision to do something about his inability to get any points across. He will give a four hour speech (again, not in the musical) which will all but end his career…