... money into their own hands." Clearly these are sentiments warning against elitism. To further show the grasp of elitism we can look at the years 1790-1791, Secretary of Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, put forth his fiscal plan which not surprisingly favored his immediate acquaintances, many of them financers and seaport merchants. Part of his plan was to redeem war bonds at face ... from an elitist one is the fact that everybody's vote is equal. What then can be done to level out the playing field and eliminate the elitist characteristics plaguing the American government? This takes us ba...

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The Anti-Federalist The writer of federalist #51, most likely Alexander Hamilton, makes several great arguments in this document. However, there are certain flaws present in the writing. Hamilton makes a good point when he says that the ideal way of appointing the entire government would be to have the American People vote for every position. This is obviously the best choice because it emphasizes the ... idea of democracy. We were promised a government run by the people and that is exactly what we should get. Giving the president the power to appoint judges is practically king-like. That is ...

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... maintains accurate membership lists. Some of the best evidence regarding party affiliation comes from voting surveys and public opinion polls. Such surveys and polls show that the majority of American voters who identify with a political party consider themselves Democrats. But party identification has never meant straight party voting. In the 1980 and 1984 presidential elections, for example, ... . These political organizations began to take shape before Washington became president in 1789. Soon after, the two groups developed into the first American political parties, the Federalist Par...

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... when the state is small enough for the whole state to assemble". Although both members of George Washington's cabinet in the US government both Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson held very different views on representation and whether or not it should, or did, promote popular rule. In 1787 ... Hamilton said "in all communities there are the few and the many. The first are rich and well born; the other, the masses of the ... in 1792, he once said to Washington "your people, sir, is a great beast". He believed that without the educated supervision of the richer people, the American ...

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... in the world, living in a dream? Well, ten of America's most widely know phrases; four of what we know as liberties, are myths. The American dream, just that a dream. Individualism, I am me, is something of the past. America's melting pot that is seen on television, very day around the world, ... of church and state, government and church. The constitution is the greatest document ever written. Well, sadly to say they are all myths. The American dream, "the widespread belief that individual initiative and hard work can bring economic success and that "the United States is the land of opp...

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Of Judges and Senators It is a fact of American political life, that a party's view of the proper division of power among the branches of government depends on which branches it controls. In the article, "Of Judges and Senators written ... 's place in the constitutional order. A political choice soon becomes constitutional duty. As Meg Greenfield once said, in debates of this kind the politicians seem to be saying, Don't blame me, Alexander Hamilton made me do it. There again, the political choice becomes a constitutional duty. It has been said, that the Republicans weren't very hard on Clint...

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