Hmm. Arguably Hamilton did foresee and in fact seed the Industrial Revolution in his 1791 report on manufactures that set up the American System. It was just kinda against the spirit of the Jeffersonian constitutional grain. Michael Lind’s land of promise covers it decently
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I think their main failure was the failure to imagine the Industrial Revolution... and what would happen to representation when states or territories are added to the Union.
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