Originally Posted by Greger
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That is NOT how the founders imagined the process.

When Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton was it business or personal?

When Brooks beat Sumner with his cane...on the floor of Congress.

Both personal despite it happening in a political environment.

Burr-Hamilton Duel

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Burr blamed his loss on a personal smear campaign believed to have been orchestrated by his party rivals, including New York governor George Clinton. Alexander Hamilton also opposed Burr, due to his belief that Burr had entertained a Federalist secession movement in New York.

Brooks-Sumner Affair

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Representative Preston Brooks, Butler's first cousin once removed,[9][10] was infuriated. He later said that he intended to challenge Sumner to a duel, and consulted with fellow South Carolina Representative Laurence M. Keitt on dueling etiquette. Keitt told him that dueling was for gentlemen of equal social standing, and that Sumner was no better than a drunkard, due to the supposedly coarse language he had used during his speech. Brooks said that he concluded that since Sumner was no gentleman, he did not merit honorable treatment; to Keitt and Brooks, it was more appropriate to humiliate Sumner by beating him with a cane in a public setting.[11]

Brooks was praised by Southern newspapers. The Richmond Enquirer editorialized that Sumner should be caned "every morning," praising the attack as "good in conception, better in execution, and best of all in consequences" and denounced "these vulgar abolitionists in the Senate" who "have been suffered to run too long without collars. They must be lashed into submission." <<<<----Sounds exceedingly personal, yes?

Sure as Hell doesn't sound like business.

Also, a further enraged Brooks went on to challenge THREE more people to a duel, one after another.

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