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How did Alexander Hamilton successfully advocate for the assumption of state debt by the federal government while obfuscating that it would enshrine the supremacy of centralized power in the US? Did he somehow hide the ramifications while still finding a successful way to promote the idea?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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