Winning was easy young man Governing is harder.

Throughout the musical most notably in What comes next? and in the first cabinet battle Washington and King George the third tell both Alexander and America that winning the war was easy, but governing the new nation would be much harder. I feel that this is a fair representation as it shows that after the war the colonies did not get along as they did not have the revolution to unite them. This is largely shown in the first cabinet battle when Thomas Jefferson fights against Hamilton's plan to assume state debts and asks why Virginia should share about New York's debts. Hamilton shoots back that it would help the Government and union by creating a new line of credit for all the colonies. In what comes next King George taunt the new nation now that is on its own and tells it now to come crawling back to him when the nations citizens begin to hate the government. This is a call back to what happened after the revolution in real life as people were not happy with the government as the nation was now in debt. The government also didn’t really know how to run itself as a nation give the fact that they had been under British rule for almost all their lives and had relied a great deal on them. Another issue is that the colonies saw themselves as each of them being a country and given their size some of them were big enough to be just that, but on their own they were also weak. Later in the musical we see that they do get a unifying form of government in the U.S constitution. But what do you think? Do you feel that winning the war was easy as compared to running the new nation and can this concept be brought into everyday life?