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present Burr's life story. Although Burr remains controversial figure in American history,
Schyler finds him admirable. Believes that Burr is free of hypocracry and admits his mistakes.
The character scetches are extremely ironical and amusing. One of the major themes it he
meaning of the constitution. Many of these politicians helped to write it. Is it a document that
will endure or is it a subject that changes? How much changed is allowed? And also Vidal
shows very cunnigly that with very few exceptions most of the founding fathers undermined
the constituion. Even jefferson undermined it. Jefferson undermind the nullificiation, any state
has the right to reject the federal law. Hamilton unermined the constituion because believed in
the more british parlament. The moral is that nothing is new, lies, scandals, nothing is really
new, present day politicians never invented anything. At the same time Vidal doesn't make