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The Federalist Papers No. 85: Alexander Hamilton
Liberty Letters, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 85 Wednesday, August 13, Saturday, August 16, 1788 ACCORDING to the formal division of the subject of these papers, announced in my first number, there would appear still to remain for discussion two points: "the analogy of the proposed government to your own State constitution," and "the [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 84: Alexander Hamilton
Liberty Letters, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 84 Wednesday, July 16, Saturday, July 26, Saturday, August 9, 1788 IN THE course of the foregoing review of the Constitution, I have taken notice of, and endeavored to answer most of the objections which have appeared against it. There, however, remain a few which either did not fall [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 83: Alexander Hamilton
Liberty Letters, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 83 Saturday, July 5, Wednesday, July 9, Saturday July 12, 1788 THE objection to the plan of the convention, which has met with most success in this State, and perhaps in several of the other States, is that relative to the want of a constitutional provision for the trial by jury in civil [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 80: Alexander Hamilton
Liberty Letters, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 80 Saturday, June 21, 1788 TO JUDGE with accuracy of the proper extent of the federal judicature, it will be necessary to consider, in the first place, what are its proper objects. It seems scarcely to admit of controversy, that the judicary authority of the Union ought to extend to [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 79: Alexander Hamilton
Liberty Letters, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 79 NEXT to permanency in office, nothing can contribute more to the independence of the judges than a fixed provision for their support. The remark made in relation to the President is equally applicable here. In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 78: Alexander Hamilton
Liberty Letters, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 78 The Judiciary Department Saturday, June 14, 1788 WE PROCEED now to an examination of the judiciary department of the proposed government. In unfolding the defects of the existing Confederation, the utility and necessity of a federal judicature have been clearly pointed out. It is [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 74: Alexander Hamilton
Liberty Letters, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 74 Tuesday, March 25, 1788 THE President of the United States is to be "commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several States when called into the actual service of the United States." The propriety of this provision is so evident in itself, [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 72: Alexander Hamilton
Liberty Letters, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 72 Wednesday, March 19, 1788 THE administration of government, in its largest sense, comprehends all the operations of the body politic, whether legislative, executive, or judiciary; but in its most usual, and perhaps its most precise signification. it is limited to executive details, and [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 71: Alexander Hamilton
Liberty Letters, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 71 Tuesday, March 18, 1788 DURATION in office has been mentioned as the second requisite to the energy of the Executive authority. This has relation to two objects: to the personal firmness of the executive magistrate, in the employment of his constitutional powers; and to the stability of [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 69: Alexander Hamilton
Liberty Letters, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 69 Friday, March 14, 1788 I PROCEED now to trace the real characters of the proposed Executive, as they are marked out in the plan of the convention. This will serve to place in a strong light the unfairness of the representations which have been made in regard to it. The first thing [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 65: Alexander Hamilton
Liberty Letters, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 65 Friday, March 7, 1788 THE remaining powers which the plan of the convention allots to the Senate, in a distinct capacity, are comprised in their participation with the executive in the appointment to offices, and in their judicial character as a court for the trial of impeachments. As in [...]
Alexander Hamilton and The Sacred Rights of Man
American Minute with Bill Federer He intentionally fired into the air, but his political rival, Vice-President Aaron Burr, took deadly aim and fatally shot him in a duel JULY 11, 1804. Born in the West Indies, he fought in the Revolution and was aide-de-camp to General Washington. He helped write the Constitution and convinced States to ratify [...]
The Federalist Papers, No. 26: Alexander Hamilton
Liberty Letters, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 26 Saturday, December 22, 1787 IT WAS a thing hardly to be expected that in a popular revolution the minds of men should stop at that happy mean which marks the salutary boundary between POWER and PRIVILEGE, and combines the energy of government with the security of private rights. A [...]
The Federalist Papers, No. 20: James Madison
Liberty Letters, James Madison, with Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 20 Tuesday, December 11, 1787 THE United Netherlands are a confederacy of republics, or rather of aristocracies of a very remarkable texture, yet confirming all the lessons derived from those which we have already reviewed. The union is composed of seven coequal and [...]
The Federalist Papers, No. 19: James Madison
Liberty Letters, James Madison, with Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 19 Saturday, December 8, 1787 THE examples of ancient confederacies, cited in my last paper, have not exhausted the source of experimental instruction on this subject. There are existing institutions, founded on a similar principle, which merit particular consideration. [...]
The Federalist Papers, No. 18: James Madison
Liberty Letters, James Madison, with Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 18 Friday, December 7, 1787 AMONG the confederacies of antiquity, the most considerable was that of the Grecian republics, associated under the Amphictyonic council. From the best accounts transmitted of this celebrated institution, it bore a very instructive analogy to [...]
The Federalist Papers, No. 16: Alexander Hamilton
Liberty Letters, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 16 Tuesday, December 4, 1787 THE tendency of the principle of legislation for States, or communities, in their political capacities, as it has been exemplified by the experiment we have made of it, is equally attested by the events which have befallen all other governments of the confederate [...]
The Federalist Papers, No. 15: Alexander Hamilton
Liberty Letters, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 15 Saturday, December 1, 1787 IN THE course of the preceding papers, I have endeavored, my fellow citizens, to place before you, in a clear and convincing light, the importance of Union to your political safety and happiness. I have unfolded to you a complication of dangers to which you [...]
The Federalist Papers, No. 13: Alexander Hamilton
Liberty Letters, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 13 Wednesday, November 28, 1787 To the People of the State of New York: AS CONNECTED with the subject of revenue, we may with propriety consider that of economy. The money saved from one object may be usefully applied to another, and there will be so much the less to be drawn from the [...]
On the Adoption of the Federal Constitution
Liberty Letters, 1788, Alexander Hamilton I AM persuaded, Mr. Chairman, that I in my turn shall be indulged in addressing the committee. We all in equal sincerity profess to be anxious for the establishment of a republican government on a safe and solid basis. It is the object of the wishes of every honest man in the United States, and I presume [...]
That Eternal Immutable Law Obligatory Upon All — Alexander Hamilton
American Minute with Bill Federer He intentionally fired into the air, but his political rival, Aaron Burr, took deadly aim and fatally shot him in a duel JULY 11, 1804. Born in the West Indies, he fought in the Revolution and was aide-de-camp to General Washington. He helped write the Constitution and convinced States to ratify it by writing [...]
Madison’s Notes — The Federal Convention of 1787 — June 29
Liberty Letters, 29 June 1787, James Madison Editor's Summary: Doctor Johnson asserts "the States ... must be armed with some power of self-defense," thus the House should represent the people, the Senate the states. Mr. Ghorum says districts within the states feared becoming part of a state government; their fears were unfounded. Read pleads for [...]
Fraud-Infested Weatherization Program Gets Billions
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In the latest of many scandals involving President Obama’s monstrous stimulus, a fraud-infested welfare program to make low-income houses energy efficient is cheating taxpayers out of billions with a recent example documented in Wisconsin. At least $5 billion in stimulus funds have been [...]
Right to Revolution — Alexander Hamilton
Liberty Letters, 23 Feb. 1775, The Farmer Refuted, Alexander Hamilton I shall, for the present, pass over to that part of your pamphlet, in which you endeavor to establish the supremacy of the British Parliament over America. After a proper eclaircissement (1) of this point, I shall draw such inferences, as will sap the foundation of every thing [...]
Madison’s Notes — The Federal Convention of 1787 — June 19
Liberty Letters, June 19, 1787, James Madison TUESDAY JUNE 19th. IN COMMITTEE OF 1 WHOLE ON THE PROPOSITIONS OF MR. PATTERSON The substitute offered yesterday by Mr. Dickenson being rejected by a vote now taken on it; Con. N. Y. N. J. Del. ay. 2 Mas. Pa. V. N. C. S. C. Geo. no. 3 Mayd. divided. Mr. PATTERSON's plan was again at large before [...]
Madison’s Notes — The Federal Convention of 1787 — June 18
Liberty Letters, June 18, 1787, James Madison The Moral Liberal summary: Alexander Hamilton makes the case for republican government modeled after the British Constitution, it being the only one in the world uniting public strength with individual security. He praises its mixed representation, checks and balances, and the greater stability and [...]
In Search of Historical Absolutes — Steve Farrell
by Steve Farrell I believe in absolutes, religious absolutes, moral absolutes, scientific absolutes (that is, useful bits and pieces of still hidden, more fundamental, scientific absolutes), political absolutes, and historical absolutes. But I've also learned through 33 years of research that the more I know, the less I know. That is not to say [...]
The Federalist No. 9 — Alexander Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection A FIRM Union will be of the utmost moment to the peace and liberty of the States, as a barrier against domestic faction and insurrection. It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling [...]
The Federalist No. 8 — Alexander Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton The Consequences of Hostilities Between the States ASSUMING it therefore as an established truth that the several States, in case of disunion, or such combinations of them as might happen to be formed out of the wreck of the general Confederacy, would be subject to those vicissitudes of peace and war, of friendship and [...]
The Federalist No. 7 — Alexander Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton Concerning Dangers from Dissensions Between the States (continued) IT IS sometimes asked, with an air of seeming triumph, what inducements could the States have, if disunited, to make war upon each other? It would be a full answer to this question to say -- precisely the same inducements which have, at different times, [...]
The Federalist No. 6 — Alexander Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton Concerning Dangers from Dissensions Between the States To the People of the State of New York: THE three last numbers of this paper have been dedicated to an enumeration of the dangers to which we should be exposed, in a state of disunion, from the arms and arts of foreign nations. I shall now proceed to delineate dangers [...]
Federalist No. 1 — Alexander Hamilton
by Alexander Hamilton Introduction To the People of the State of New York: AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than [...]
The Federalist No. 6 — Alexander Hamilton
Concerning Dangers from Dissensions Between the States To the People of the State of New York: THE three last numbers of this paper have been dedicated to an enumeration of the dangers to which we should be exposed, in a state of disunion, from the arms and arts of foreign nations. I shall now proceed to delineate dangers of a different and, [...]
