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[00:01.04] After the war I went back to New York

[00:02.54] A-After the war I went back to New York

[00:05.03] I finished up my studies and I practiced law

[00:07.82] I practiced law, Burr worked next door

[00:10.52] Even though we started at the very same time

[00:13.12] Alexander Hamilton began to climb

[00:15.86] How to account for his rise to the top?

[00:18.59] Man, the man is

[00:20.46] Non-stop

[00:21.71] Gentlemen of the jury, I'm curious, bear with me

[00:23.95] Are you aware that we're making hist'ry?

[00:26.22] This is the first murder trial of our brand-new nation

[00:29.45] The liberty behind

[00:30.46] Deliberation (Non-stop)

[00:31.50] I intend to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt

[00:33.55] With my assistant counsel

[00:35.01] Co-counsel

[00:36.01] Hamilton, sit down

[00:36.61] Our client Levi Weeks is innocent

[00:38.09] Call your first witness

[00:39.35] That's all you had to say

[00:40.58] Okay

[00:41.13] One more thing

[00:42.08] Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?

[00:44.34] Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?

[00:47.09] Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?

[00:49.35] Soon that attitude may be your doom (aww)

[00:52.34] Why do you write like you're running out of time?

[00:54.60] Write day and night like you're running out of time?

[00:57.09] Ev'ry day you fight, like you're running out of time

[00:59.88] Keep on fighting

[01:01.57] In the meantime

[01:02.35] Non-stop

[01:03.14] Corruption's such an old song that we can sing along in harmony

[01:06.13] And nowhere is it stronger than in Albany

[01:07.88] This colony's economy's increasingly stalling and

[01:10.64] Honestly, that's why public service

[01:12.37] Seems to be calling me (he's just non-stop)

[01:13.13] I practiced the law, I practic'ly perfected it

[01:15.64] I've seen injustice in the world and I've corrected it

[01:18.38] Now for a strong central democracy

[01:20.37] If not, then I'll be Socrates

[01:21.64] Throwing verbal rocks

[01:22.89] At these mediocrities (aww)

[01:23.63] Hamilton, at the constitutional convention

[01:26.12] I was chosen for the constitutional convention

[01:28.87] There as a New York junior delegate

[01:31.64] Now what I'm going to say may sound indelicate (aww)

[01:34.14] Goes and proposes his own form of government (what?)

[01:36.62] His own plan for a new form of government (what?)

[01:39.13] Talks for six hours

[01:40.64] The convention is listless

[01:41.90] Bright young man

[01:43.13] Yo, who the f is this?

[01:44.37] Why do you always say what you believe?

[01:46.88] Why do you always say what you believe?

[01:49.37] Ev'ry proclamation guarantees free ammunition for your enemies

[01:54.95] Why do you write like it's

[01:56.52] Going out of style?

[01:57.77] Write day and night like it's

[01:59.03] Going out of style?

[02:00.02] Ev'ry day you fight like it's

[02:01.53] Going out of style

[02:02.52] Do what you do

[02:06.28] Alexander?

[02:07.02] Aaron Burr, sir

[02:08.03] It's the middle of the night

[02:09.28] Can we confer, sir?

[02:10.54] Is this a legal matter?

[02:11.80] Yes, and it's important to me

[02:13.53] What do you need?

[02:14.27] Burr, you're a better lawyer than me

[02:15.54] Okay

[02:16.78] I know I talk too much, I'm abrasive

[02:18.05] You're incredible in court

[02:19.54] You're succinct, persuasive

[02:21.03] My client needs a strong defense

[02:22.81] You're the solution

[02:23.80] Who's your client?

[02:24.54] The new U.S. Constitution?

[02:26.30] No

[02:27.30] Hear me out

[02:28.05] No way

[02:28.78] A series of essays, anonymously published

[02:31.05] Defending the document to the public

[02:32.81] No one will read it

[02:34.03] I disagree

[02:34.80] And if it fails?

[02:35.55] Burr, that's why we need it

[02:36.56] The constitution's a mess

[02:37.80] So it needs amendments

[02:39.03] It's full of contradictions

[02:40.54] So is independence

[02:42.02] We have to start somewhere

[02:43.30] No

[02:44.35] No way

[02:45.08] You're making a mistake

[02:45.82] Good night

[02:46.63] Hey

[02:47.58] What are you waiting for?

[02:48.58] What do you stall for? (what?)

[02:49.82] We won the war

[02:51.08] What was it all for?

[02:52.33] Do you support this constitution?

[02:54.60] Of course

[02:55.08] Then defend it

[02:56.08] And what if you're backing the wrong horse?

[02:57.84] Burr, we studied and we fought and we killed

[03:00.07] For the notion of a nation we now get to build

[03:02.59] For once in your life, take a stand with pride

[03:04.82] I don't understand how you stand to the side

[03:07.81] I'll keep all my plans

[03:09.85] Close to my chest (wait for it, wait for it, wait)

[03:12.88] I'll wait here and see

[03:15.07] Which way the wind

[03:16.10] Will blow

[03:17.64] I'm taking my time

[03:20.36] Watching the

[03:21.61] Afterbirth of a nation

[03:22.96] Watching the tension grow

[03:29.19] I am sailing off to London

[03:30.96] I'm accompanied by someone

[03:32.99] Who always pays

[03:34.49] I have found a wealthy husband who will keep

[03:37.49] Me in comfort for all my days

[03:39.72] He is not a lot of fun, but there's no one who

[03:42.74] Can match you for turn of phrase

[03:44.97] My Alexander

[03:47.48] Angelica

[03:48.97] Don't forget to write

[03:51.51] Look at where you are

[03:53.50] Look at where you started

[03:56.23] The fact that you're alive is a miracle

[03:58.73] Just stay alive, that would be enough

[04:01.48] And if your wife could share a fraction of your time

[04:06.77] If I could grant you peace of mind

[04:11.00] Would that be enough?

[04:12.49] Alexander joins forces with James Madison and John Jay to write a series of essays

[04:16.74] Defending the new United States constitution

[04:19.24] Entitled The Federalist papers

[04:21.26] The plan was to write a total of twenty-five essays

[04:24.24] The work divided evenly among the three men

[04:28.24] In the end, they wrote eighty-five essays, in the span of six months

[04:31.99] John Jay got sick after writing five

[04:35.75] James Madison wrote twenty-nine

[04:38.24] Hamilton wrote the other fifty-one

[04:42.49] How do you write like you're

[04:43.77] Running out of time?

[04:45.24] Write day and night like you're

[04:46.76] Running out of time?

[04:47.79] Ev'ry day you fight

[04:48.98] Like you're

[04:49.74] Running out of time

[04:50.48] Like you're

[04:51.22] Running out of time

[04:51.75] Are you

[04:51.85] Running out of time?

[04:52.86] How do you write like tomorrow won't arrive?

[04:55.59] How do you write like you need it to survive?

[04:58.09] How do you write ev'ry second you're alive?

[05:00.61] Ev'ry second you're alive? Ev'ry second you're alive?

[05:04.18] They are asking me to lead

[05:07.43] I am doing the best I can

[05:09.66] To get the people that I need

[05:12.73] I'm asking you to be my right hand man

[05:14.79] Treasury or State?

[05:15.54] I know it's a lot to ask

[05:17.30] Treasury or State?

[05:18.06] To leave behind the world you know

[05:20.04] Sir, do you want me to run the Treasury or State department?

[05:24.29] Treasury

[05:26.03] Let's go

[05:28.54] Alexander

[05:29.79] I have to leave

[05:30.79] Alexander

[05:32.32] Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now

[05:36.83] Helpless

[05:38.07] They are asking me to lead

[05:39.81] Look around, isn't this enough?

[05:42.07] He will never be satisfied

[05:44.55] He will never be satisfied

[05:47.06] Satisfied

[05:48.62] Satisfied

[05:56.39] He will never be satisfied

[05:57.90] Satisfied

[05:59.16] Satisfied

[06:04.40] History has its eyes on you

[06:08.40] I am not throwin' away my shot

[06:10.42] I am not throwin' away my shot

[06:13.17] I am

[06:14.18] Alexander Hamilton

[06:18.66] I am not throwin' away my shot