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The Compromise of 1790 was a compromise among Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, where Hamilton won the decision for the national government to take over and pay the state debts, and Jefferson and Madison obtained the national capital, called the District of Columbia, for the South.
For Hamilton, the government was created because the endeavors of men do not conform to the "dictates of reason and justice" and groups of men act less carefully than those acting alone: "Regard to reputation," Hamilton writes, "has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided among a number than when it is to fall ...
Hamilton structures his argument as a series of rebuttals to various Anti-Federalist arguments about the U.S. Senate having the power to impeach and the Senate's potential to overreach its authority. Under the Constitution, the U.S. House of Representatives can impeach a government official serving as a prosecutor.
Debt Assumption, or simply assumption, was a US financial policy executed under the Funding Act of 1790.The Washington administration pursued the policy, under Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton's leadership, to assume the outstanding debt of states that had not yet repaid their American Revolutionary War bonds and a scrip.
Astute observers, however, correctly discerned the identities of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay. Establishing authorial authenticity of the essays that constitute The Federalist Papers has not always been clear. After Hamilton's death in 1804, a list emerged, claiming that he alone had written two-thirds of The Federalist essays. Some believe that ...
A search of Hamilton’s writings turned up no such quote, though, and experts who have written and edited texts about the first treasury secretary said he did not write it.
Federalist No. 21, written by Alexander Hamilton, highlights the defects in the Articles of Confederation.It was first published by The Independent Journal (New York) on December 12, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all The Federalist papers were published.
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