The Founding Fathers and Self-Rule

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The Founding Fathers and Self-Rule

 

 

By: Jarrett Stepman

2/16/2013 07:05 AM

The life of Founding Father Albert Gallatin demonstrates just how different America has been compared to other nations and how far off the right path it has gone.

Gallatin, an immigrant from Geneva, moved to the United States in 1780 during the final stages of the American Revolution. He was an orphan who had received a solid education and a small inheritance from his parents, but was by no means wealthy.

 

After just a few years in America working and doing business to earn a fairly modest sum of money, Gallatin was able to buy a plot of land in western Pennsylvania larger than the country he was born in, which was not uncommon in America. Gallatin used his modest success to launch a political career and become one of the greatest treasury secretaries in American history.

Gallatin explained why