... : Government is instituted to protect property of every sort. . . . This being the end of government, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own. Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury, helped restore faith in the public credit with his economic program. It was at his urging that the U.S. dollar be defined in terms of ... , silver and gold. (At the Constitutional Convention, the delegates were so opposed to fiat paper money that Luther Martin of Maryland complained that they were filled with paper money dread.) Hamilton's ce...

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