John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison wrote a series of essays and published them as The Federalist Papers. ... Their strategy was to portray America in crisis. The point to a stagnant American economy, potential for revolt and social anarchy, and to the contempt other nations showed towards this new nation. ...
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...
The proper interpretation of the Necessary and Proper Clause was the subject of a heated debate between such important figures as Alexander Hamilton (who argued that the clause should be read broadly to authorize the exercise of many implied powers) and Thomas Jefferson (who argued that "necessary" really meant necessary). Hamilton's more flexible interpretation makes possible a strong central government, whereas Jefferson's narrower interpretation strengthens states' rights. ... Congress has, of course, with the blessing of the Supreme Court, used the commerce clause to extend...
Today American democracy would not work without them. ... To better understand the decline of the party system one must first understand the development and the positive attributes of the early American party system. Party competition first emerged, when James Madison and Thomas Jefferson sought to create a political opposition to Alexander Hamilton, John Adams and the Federalists. ... He feared that Hamilton's view of the Constitution and the unitary system that he advocated would destroy the delicate balance of powers that Madison's understanding of government had envisioned. ... ...
In the early times of the American Revolution, before the formal creation of a joint American army. ... The Revolutionary war had taken a toll on the American economy and had cause the American government to place heavier tax on the people. ... Alexander Hamilton, George Washington's secretary of treasury had suggested Washington to raise the taxes on whisky. ... This abolished slavery making all men in America free. ... Of these restrictions placed on the African – Americans were that...
