Just purchased a 1900 Lafayette dollar!

great coin

 

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I don't have to think about it. I am already published on the issue thorugh Random House and vetted. Lafayette was asked to run on the ticket and I'll just repeat that he predated the clause as did Hamilton.


Ruben

 

Doug, what was the institution with power to grant citizenship prior to 1789?

Ruben

 

nice coin, looks a lot better than G-6.

 

I think you made a great addition to your collection.:thumb:

 

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_4_citizenships3.html

here is a tibit to start with

 

Washington asked Lafayette to run with him on the first election and Lafayette, who had spent time with Washington in this period at Mnt Vernon, and who qualified as citizen under NUMEROUS states which granted naturalizations to loyalist soldiers and even Hessian troops who defected to the American cause. Lafayette refused and also turned down requests for naturalizations under New York among other states and returned to France...but continued to be directly involved in American politics and the issue of emancipation in the US.

If Lafayette accepted he's had been considered a citizen under state law prior to ratification, as was Hamilton and eligible under the current constitution to have run for any office, including the Presidency.

The founding fathers pleaded with this him but he refused...which was a bad choice on his part because he ended up spending several years as a political prisoner in Europe which Washington again tried to repair, but failed to acquire his freedom. Lafayette and Washington were so bound together that Lafayette named with son "George Washington" Lafayette.

I know nothing of the St Claire situation and can make no comment.

Ruben

 

I don't think there were any requirements to be VP prior to the 12th amendment, so perhaps he could have qualified for that office. Lafayette might have been somewhat more eligible to run than either McCain or Obama [neither seeming to qualify under current law], but he was also a member of the French nobility which might have caused some difficulties had someone chosen to challenge his eligibility. Precidents were being established at the time so it isn't surprising that some would have considered Lafayette eligible while others may have felt differently.

 

thanks.

If he took Washington's offer his citizenship would have been considered as if it was granted, when it was essentially authorized in NYS at the end of the Revolution in October 1781.

This was very important in a nation where more Native Born Americans took arms AGAINST Washington than for him....

Ruben

 

at the time, everyone ran for President and the second place winner was vice-president

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1789

 

Of course, but there were no qualifications for anyone who managed to come in second, which sort of shows how things were still being worked out at the time.

 

that is what I thought. It looks to be much better than the grade they assigned.

 

Nice, solid coin. I've seen coins graded G4 and G6 nowhere near as nice as this one.

Congrats, Isaiah !

 

This is my example of the Lafayette Dollar. I bought it raw in the 1980s. I was a little concerned about it being genuine & had it slabbed recently.

Very best regards,
collect89

 

Thats a great coin. What grade did the TPG give it?

 

Things would be MUCH more interesting if we went back to that system.

 

More interesting than when all of Congress came to Washington armed because of the violence on the floors.

Ruben

 

I dunno, ever watch C-Span when they had Cynthia McKinney or especially Mr Traficant was rambling on?

 

I know your probably joking but FWIW - its not close. Congress is dangerous and everyone came armed and read to shoot.

http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Caning_of_Senator_Charles_Sumner.htm