I am an American motion-picture and television producer and showman. ... Also the time Americans were afraid of communist, because they thought every communist would be out to destroy America, Americans were afraid that the communist would take their rights away, also all Americans should be treated fairly and should not have their lives dictated. ... During the 1950's it was a fearful time for Americans. ... If Americans lost their rights that means that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and, of course, Benjamin Franklin wasted their tim...

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Roosevelt had to make a decision regarding how to handle the sizable Japanese-American population on the west coast. ... As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist #74, "The direction of war implies the direction of the common strength; and the power of directing and employing the common strength, forms a usual and essential part in the definition of the executive authority"6. This is Hamilton invoking the idea of plenary authority. What this essentially means is that Hamilton would vest in the President complete unitary power to deploy and command the military as he or she sees fit i...

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In addition to his quest for support, he began to license American vessels to operate as privateers against British shipping and to grant French military commissions to a number of Americans in order to prepare expeditions against Spanish and British territorial claims in North America. These two actions were in direct defilement of American law. ... The provisions made under this treaty did not benefit America whatsoever. ... The Americans refused and the talks eventually ended. ... Washington, who had already retired, was brought back to lead the forces alongside Alexander Hamilton...

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Libertarian Gene Healy believed that the county would have been better off if the government had done nothing especially on issues such as "African American voting rights, pollution, and poverty. ... Alexander Hamilton said in the Federalist Papers, that the president commander in chief was like the Great King of Britain, but in substance much inferior. ... Truman was in office, he became one of the most popular and powerful presidents in American history. Truman never really hesitated when it came to use executive power to its fullest constitution limits if he believed that his actions...

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