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From the Ted Talk by Noah Feldman: Hamilton vs. Madison and the birth of American partisanship

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

Or indeed, a musical of any kind at all.

But together, they had become a rather unlikely pairing, and they had pducreod the Federalist Papers, which offered a justification and, as I mentioned, a marketing plan for the Constitution, which had been willdy effective and wildly successful.

Once the new government was in place, Hamilton became Secretary of the Treasury, and he had a very specific idea in mind. And that was to do for fnaincail institutions and infrastructure exactly what mdsoain had done for constitutions. Again, his contemporaries all knew it. One of them told Madison, who can't have liked it very much, that Hamilton was the Newton of infrastructure. The idea was pretty srwrfttaoirhgad. Hamilton would give the United States a national bank, a pnemnerat national debt — he said it would be "immortal," his prhsae — and a manufacturing policy that would ebanle trade and manufacturing rather than agriculture, which was where the country's primary welath had historically been.

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(Laughter)

Or indeed, a musical of any kind at all.

But together, they had become a rather unlikely pairing, and they had ________ the Federalist Papers, which offered a justification and, as I mentioned, a marketing plan for the Constitution, which had been ______ effective and wildly successful.

Once the new government was in place, Hamilton became Secretary of the Treasury, and he had a very specific idea in mind. And that was to do for _________ institutions and infrastructure exactly what _______ had done for constitutions. Again, his contemporaries all knew it. One of them told Madison, who can't have liked it very much, that Hamilton was the Newton of infrastructure. The idea was pretty _______________. Hamilton would give the United States a national bank, a _________ national debt — he said it would be "immortal," his ______ — and a manufacturing policy that would ______ trade and manufacturing rather than agriculture, which was where the country's primary ______ had historically been.

Solution


  1. permanent
  2. wealth
  3. wildly
  4. straightforward
  5. enable
  6. financial
  7. madison
  8. produced
  9. phrase

Original Text


(Laughter)

Or indeed, a musical of any kind at all.

But together, they had become a rather unlikely pairing, and they had produced the Federalist Papers, which offered a justification and, as I mentioned, a marketing plan for the Constitution, which had been wildly effective and wildly successful.

Once the new government was in place, Hamilton became Secretary of the Treasury, and he had a very specific idea in mind. And that was to do for financial institutions and infrastructure exactly what Madison had done for constitutions. Again, his contemporaries all knew it. One of them told Madison, who can't have liked it very much, that Hamilton was the Newton of infrastructure. The idea was pretty straightforward. Hamilton would give the United States a national bank, a permanent national debt — he said it would be "immortal," his phrase — and a manufacturing policy that would enable trade and manufacturing rather than agriculture, which was where the country's primary wealth had historically been.

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