Hey, if you had to shout out some of the founding fathers of the United States of America,

chances are your go-to guys would be George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin.

And now thanks very much to Lynn Munwell Miranda, Alexander Hamilton.

But there was another architect of American independence.

The guy who coined the phrase,

We the people.

He was brilliant, colorful, and visionary.

From the bedchambers of Versailles to the Continental Congress

to pledging his love to a woman involved in a murder,

he lived large.

Even the way he died

was so shocking

and bizarre.

You'd think that alone would have made

him a household name.

And they got a small beam of light

against the mirror.

Real, wrong, weird, stuff.

Did you hate history when you were in school? Did you hate history when you were in school?

Trying to memorize all those dates and battles,

writing papers on the Monroe Doctrine and the Louisiana Purchase,

only to have almost every single fact you'd ferret it out,

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