Thanks to that Broadway musical, I now have to constantly remind my kid that Alexander Hamilton was, in fact, a Federalist, mercantilist, and central banker--al

Thanks to that Broadway musical, I now have to constantly remind my kid that Alexander Hamilton was, in fact, a Federalist, mercantilist, and central banker--all three synonymous with "jerk". He was the sort of politician that had not just a punchable face, but a murderable one, and Burr was just the man who broke first. However, without the Federalists, the US would likely be more fragmented than it is now, with its 5-12 (depending on who you ask) disparate regional cultures.