Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804) the nation's first Secretary of the Treasury, believed that our country needs a strong government that would be controlled by the rich and famous. After seeing what kind of trouble the country was in, he immediately wanted to establish economic policies. In his Reports on the Public Credit, Hamilton proposed that the federal government funded all national and state debts, ... destroyed the national bank by removing federal funds and placing them in state banks. Western banks, had distributed more money than they had backed by gold and silver, causing inflation...

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My name is Alexander Hamilton. All of you might recognize me from the ten-dollar bill and being one of the delegates that helped write the U.S. Constitution. From you reaction, I sense that you don't recognize ... me. Perhaps I should tell you more about myself. I was born in the island of Nevis in the British West Indies on the 11th of January 1755. My father was James Hamilton, a Scottish merchant of St. Christopher. My mother was Rachael Fawcett Levin. Heavy burdens fell upon me during my childhood. Business failures caused my father to become bankrupt. Soon after, my ... ...

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... . Now for Federalist it was about how the people that were agreeing with the Constitution these people were called the federalist people. These people included George Washington, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. But these three men were on of making the federalist together but had and argument about the documents that went on from the federalist part. The main point was that ... against each other trying to be president's to their country but only one really got the offer to do this and that was Thomas Jefferson. I think that the reason why Hamilton didn't win was because all he wa...

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... themselves had been denied rights such as those by England and they wanted to be sure it wouldn't happen to the people being governed. The framers of the constitution, including Alexander Hamilton, remembered the case of Peter Zenger, when the English Government attempted to severely restrict the Freedom of the Press. Peter Zenger had written an article criticizing Colonial Governor William Cosby ... . Zenger was brought to trial and defended by Hamilton, who won the case. The framers didn't want citizens to be brought to court merely for expressing opinions. Another reason Freedom of th...

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... , George Washington owned tons of acres of land, Robert Morris was the foremost business and financial leader, and all of the men possessed a cosmopolitanism, which separated them from the masses. Alexander Hamilton described this conception well when he stated, "All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well-born, the other the masses of ... rebelling. In 1786 a rebellion erupted in Massachusetts led by Daniel Shays, which proposed a direct threat to the governing elite there. This galvanized the elite into action with the help of Hamilton a...

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... Inst.) writes, "where is it written that one man gets to decide whether the United States goes to war with Iraq? Congress has not authorized military action." He also cites Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 69 as saying, "[the President is] the "first general" of America's armed forces. And generals don't decide which countries go to war". Those arguments not withstanding; a curve ... ...

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... . The whole process is presided by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. But to prevent a party-line vote from tossing the Chief Executive, the Senate requires a two-thirds vote. Alexander Hamilton suggested this idea because the judges will "be too often the leaders, or the tools of the most cunning or the most numerous faction; and on this account can hardly ... ...

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This piece of writing is a detailed overview of the troubles America had during the time around the Articles of Confederation. "The republic is sick," wrote Alexander Hamilton in 1781, "and wants powerful remedies." The problems the country had were both social and economic. But the American people saw the problems as political, and sought out political solutions. ... ...

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... congress. Important legislation required a two-thirds vote of the states; a unanimous vote of state legislatures was required to amend. The supporters of the new constitution were called Federalists headed by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. They branded their opponents with the name of Anti-Federalists. The Structure of the government under the Articles of Confederation was in a compromise. Congress could ... ...

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... are a strong retort to the objections voiced against the fresh new Constitution. They, too, were published in the New York Times under a pen name-- Publius-- and appeared between 1787 and1788. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay wrote a series of 85 essays that appeared in New York newspapers. In these essays, they argued that the powers of the national government distributed and balanced ... ...

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