The Articles of Confederation: Once our Government, Now our History The Articles of Confederation was the first constitution of the United States of America. Soon after the Revolutionary War in America, the Articles of Confederation were first drafted by the continental congress in Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1777. ... These were identified in "The Federalist", the political essays in which Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay argued in the case for the U.S. ... Alexander Hamilton successfully proposed that the states be invited to send delegates to Philadelphia to render th...

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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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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. ... ...

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This was a huge issue because America had some very large debts to pay off and its government had little ability to raise revenue; therefore there would be no way to pay off debts unless the states used taxes to pay of debts individually. ... Morris and Alexander Hamilton devised a dangerous plot called the Newburgh Conspiracy in order to relieve the panic. ... European governments closed off nearly all American trade with the colonies. ... Because the government was so weak, a man by the name of Daniel Shays led farmers in rebellion against the government to correct the chaos in America. ...

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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...

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Federalism is a very important and often misunderstood aspect of the American political system. ... The principles of American federalism created in the 18th century, continue today. ... Alexander Hamilton, proponent of a strong national government, argued that for the nation to survive, it was critical for national government to be the leading force in all-political affairs. ... The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, but conflicts over states' rights vs. national power have arisen throughout American history: 1886 (Wabash, St. ... Today, most civil and criminal laws that gove...

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