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Will the US be here in 100 years? I must answer the question; does the United States exist today? I have my copy of the US Constitution, and I have read my copy of the US Constitution. We are living in a country called the United States only. The answer is NO because the question isn't valid on January 6, 2008.

Alexander Hamilton's dreams became an institution from his family's store in St. Croix. His bookkeeping experience in his mother's store landed him a clerk's job in the international trading firm of Nicholas Cruger. Cruger was a New Yorker whose trading center for shipping was on St. Croix.

The boy's exceptional skills, and endless learning capacity made him the COO, in today's terms, running the firm in the owner's absence. As a teenager, Hamilton was inspecting cargoes, advising ships' captains, and preparing bills of lading. Under Cruger's tutelage, Hamilton mastered the intricacies of global finance and experienced first hand how material interests of peoples in countries interwove the complicated fabric of international trade. The bustling port of St. Croix was a melting pot of residents with visitors from all over the world. This formed a mental picture in Hamilton's mind. A global village was his vision. He also saw the darker side of international dealings, as the island was a hub for colonial slave trade. Hamilton saw the horrors of human defilement, which created his deep hatred of slavery. Later, he co-founded an abolitionist society in New York. The youngster drank in everything he saw. Nothing went unused in his mind.

Nicholas Cruger opened Alexander Hamilton to the material elements. The Reverend Hugh Knox provided him with a strong spiritual, and intellectual foundation. Knox, who took Hamilton under his wing, after Rachel's death (Hamilton's mother), Knox was a Scottish Presbyterian minister at odds with his faith because he had a firm belief in free will. Presbyterian shot off from Calvinist Doctrine with Predestination based on God's written Book of Life. For someone like Hamilton, who was predestined to an obscure life, we can see how Knox's philosophy appealed to him. The Reverend's encouragement undoubtedly led Hamilton to big dreams. Knox, a brilliant sermon-writer, and occasional doctor, took the young orphan into training for the humanities and sciences. When Hamilton was able, he furthered his intelligence in Knox's library. He read the classics voluminously. Multitudes of literature and history as Hamilton fancied himself a writer

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