In 1804 Vice President Aaron Burr shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a dual. Hamilton was the first Secretary of the Treasury, founder of the first National Bank and one of the founding fathers of Wall Street.

Jefferson, who kept his own children as slaves, called Hamilton a royalist, this is not technically true. However, Hamilton did say:

“All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true in fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share in the government… Can a democratic assembly who annually revolve in the mass of the people be supposed steadily to pursue public good? Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy…”

       Howard Zinn    People’s History of the United States

    The Aaron Burr Society believes that Hamilton’s elite have been and are currently inextricably tied to Wall Street.

    The Society is a non-violent group of radicals and free thinkers who are dedicated to refining and expanding the concepts of the Enlightenment, the philosophy of our Founding Fathers. Within this context we are committed to stopping the Crimes of Wall Street and their Corporate Cronies.