Alexander Hamilton was a federalist and believed that the US needed to think of state debts as national debt. ... "Hamilton's background would always set him apart and give him an outlook on life and politics the other Founding Fathers did not share" (Gordon). Hamilton had a very strong work ethic ever since he was a young kid. ... Would he change anything about Hamilton's ideas? ... I do agree with Gordon's arguments about Hamilton. ...

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Alexander Hamilton was born on a small Caribbean Island called Nevis. ... Much of his early life is obscure. ... James Hamilton Jr. found work as an apprentice to a carpenter, however and Alexander got a job with a trading firm called Beckman and Cruger. ... In 1780 Alexander Hamilton married Elizabeth Schuyler, the daughter of General Philip Schuyler, a member of an important New York family. ... Hamilton desired a strong central federal government that had a president for life, but that was not shared by other convention delegates. ...

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Alexander Hamilton, the secretary of Treasury, and Thomas Jefferson, the Secretary of State, were brought together in the cabinet by George Washington. ... Hamilton was a strong supporter to a federal government. ... Hamilton thought negatively on mankind. ... Hamilton was born in 1775 in the British West Indies. ... He lived the rags to riches life. ...

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Of Judges and Senators It is a fact of American political life, that a party's view of the proper division of power among the branches of government depends on which branches it controls. ... As Meg Greenfield once said, in debates of this kind the politicians seem to be saying, Don't blame me, Alexander Hamilton made me do it. ...

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But I lived most of my life in Marceline, Missouri. ... The way I choose how to live my life is my decision and nobody else's. ... 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 time and that's not fair to me or my fellow Americans. ... I don't know about the rest of America but I would like to live my life while I can. ... But overall McCarthyism was terrible and my life is better without it....

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It was such a huge change because of the influence it had on the nation and what it stood for which was life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ... Ministers feared for their life. They wanted the opportunity to live a better life and live by their morals and religious beliefs; so they left New England to do just that by birthing the United Colonies. ... Alexander Hamilton configured a meeting to solve this problem that the country was having. ...

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George Washington George Washington was more than just the first president of the United States. Not only did he serve as a role model for countless soldiers during America's Revolutionary War, but he set the pace for Presidents of the future. He will always be remembered for his dedication and bravery. Although Washington had more total loses than he did vidtories, he continued to maintain his dignity and respect for his superiors. George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. ...

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He respected elders, and he experienced hardships of colonial life. basically, he learned that life was difficult, which in turn would help make him become strong and patient. ... John Adams was Vice president, Henry Knox was Secretary of War, Alexander Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury, Thomas Jefferson was Secretary of State, and Edmund Randolph was Attorney General. ... "Hamilton, Knox, Jefferson, and Randolph each asked Washington to continue as president" (Washington, George; Page 105). ...

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By 1753, the problems between the French and the British were growing, this would end up becoming the French and Indian war (1754-63), which showed to be opportunities for Washington to get ahead in life. ... Hoping to keep sectionalism from dividing the new nation, he nevertheless failed to heal the widening breach between factions led by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. Because he supported many of Hamilton's controversial fiscal policies--the assumption of state debts, the Bank of the United States, and the excise tax--Washington bec...

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In the book The Epic of America written by James Truslow Adams in 1931 stated that The American Dream was one many immigrants have of a land in which life should be better for each person based on their ability and their achievements. One of the amazing facts of being an American is that no person should be denied the right to own land or property , because as stated in The Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal with certain rights like life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Being an American, also means you have an equal chance at life, no matter the competitors arou...

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James Madison and Alexander Hamilton wrote the Constitution's Bill of Rights. ... One example of how freedom of speech is use in everyone's life everyday is the writing on all our currency. ...

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Alexander Hamilton suggested this idea because the judges will "be too often the leaders, or the tools of the most cunning or the most numerous faction; and on this account can hardly be expected to possess the requisite neutrality towards those, whose conduct may be the subject of scrutiny (pg. 5)." ... In conclusion, it is not difficult to understand that America, even with its faults, holds a better life than the Swiss. ...

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It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.... " (GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Alexander Hamilton, May 2, 1783) [ CITATION Geo13 l 1033 ]This is the very principle our nation was built upon. ...

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He was raised right outside of Batavia in Alexander, New York. He went to school through eleventh grade in Alexander but ended up graduating from Batavia High School in 1951. ... He lived a thorough and wonderful life, influencing many people throughout it (Grolier). ... He also falls into the temptation of saving his own life. ... Bercilak teaches Gawain an important lesson that sticks with him for the remainder of his life (Gibbons 1). ...

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My life is no longer my life it has to be with in the realm of society. ... "The U.S. government and most state governments, and many local governments open their sessions with prayer, commonly a prayer specific to one religion" (internet) how the government and church be separate if this is everyday life. ... So if anyone could create a great government with political, cultural and economic greatness than Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton are the people I would what to set the groundwork for this government. ...

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It was dated back to 5400 BCE. 3150 BCE (Egypt)- One of Egypt's earliest rulers, King Scorpion 1 was buried with around 700 jars of wine. 3000 BCE (Egypt)- Pharaohs acquired a taste for wine and established their own limited domestic production. 323 BCE (Greece)- It was said that heavy wine drinking caused Alexander the Great's death of a "mysterious " illness. 193 BCE (Rome)-North African wines dominate after septimius severus' rise to power. 146 BCE (Italy)- The Italian peninsula became the world's first wine-producing region, right around when Rome became the lead...

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(Russell 79) Like many others, she realized there was a better life ahead of her without being in bondage. ... (Crowe 214) In 1785, a group of New Yorkers led by John Jay and Alexander Hamilton arranged for the formal freeing of slaves. ... (Crowe 229) Thomas Jefferson owned and sold slaves, yet proclaimed that all men were equal with the "unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." ...

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As designed by the Constitution's framers, they strongly believed that only Congress could exercise the life and death power to declare war. ... 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. ...

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Moreover, this ook stresses the immortal fact that Jackson's private life had as much irony and agony as his political/outside life did. With those factors understood, Jackson's life and the times he lived in, will become clear to all. ... Luckily for Jackson, his stealth saved him from certain death, but leaving him with scars on his left hand and head which he carried with him his whole life, along with a hatred for the British. ...

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