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Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 [a] – July 12, 1804) was an American military officer, statesman, ... indefinable characteristics of genius." ...
Alexander Hamilton writes that energy in the executive is "the leading character in the definition of good government." [2] [4] [36] Some scholars equate Hamiltonian "energy" to presidential "activity," while others describe energy as a president's eagerness to act on the behalf of his constituents. [6] [7] [37]
In Federalist No. 69, Alexander Hamilton sought to explain the nature of the executive branch in order to address fears that the U.S. President would function as an elected monarch, the primary concern of Anti-Federalists. Memories of unpopular British polices were fresh in the mind of Anti-Federalists, and they were not ready to accept any new ...
Federalist No. 68 is the continuation of Alexander Hamilton's analysis of the presidency, in this case concerning the method of electing the president. Hamilton argues the advantages of the indirect electoral process described in Article II Section 1 of the Constitution.
Federalist No. 78 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the seventy-eighth of The Federalist Papers. Like all of The Federalist papers, it was published under the pseudonym Publius. Titled "The Judiciary Department", Federalist No. 78 was published May 28, 1788, and first appeared in a newspaper on June 14 of the same year.
Alexander Hamilton’s feud with fellow Founding Father Thomas Jefferson is well-chronicled, both in academic literature and on stage, but he didn’t tell Jefferson he wanted to hit him with a chair.
The Founding Fathers – joined by Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton – tried to raise a glass to freedom on “Saturday Night Live,” but were interrupted by James Austin Johnson as ...
Alexander Hamilton was the first Secretary of the Treasury. In addition to sponsoring a national bank, Hamilton's other measures included an assumption of the state war debts by the U.S. government, establishment of a mint and imposition of a federal excise tax. The goals of Hamilton's measures were to: [2]