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Vor 15 Stunden · Originally printed in newspapers in New York and elsewhere, The Federalist Papers are now foundational documents of American history and political thought. Federalist No. 1, written by Alexander Hamilton using the pseudonym “Publius”, began as a response to two earlier essays written against the ratification (by “Cato” and “Brutus ...
Vor 4 Tagen · The Federalist design of a government with a clear separation of powers and checks and balances prevents any single entity from gaining too much control. Recent Supreme Court cases wrestle with the limits of federal versus state authority on issues such as healthcare and immigration policy.
Vor 2 Tagen · The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. [3] It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, on March 4, 1789. Originally including seven articles, the Constitution delineates the national frame and constrains the powers of the federal government.
Vor 3 Tagen · The Federalist Party was a nationalist American political party and the first political party in the United States. It dominated the national government under Alexander Hamilton from 1789 to 1801.
Vor 3 Tagen · Alexander Hamilton was a New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention (1787), a major author of the Federalist papers, and the first secretary of the treasury of the United States (1789–95). He argued in favour of a strong central government for the new United States.
- Alexander Hamilton was born out of wedlock in Nevis, British West Indies (now in Saint Kitts and Nevis), in either 1755 or 1757, and his father aba...
- Alexander Hamilton was a New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention (1787), a major author of the Federalist papers, and the first secretar...
- In addition to his accomplishments as a U.S. statesman, Alexander Hamilton is remembered for his untimely death in a duel with Aaron Burr, who was...
Vor 2 Tagen · Hamilton opposed a bill of rights in The Federalist No. 84, stating that "the constitution is itself in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, a bill of rights." He stated that ratification did not mean the American people were surrendering their rights, making protections unnecessary: "Here, in strictness, the people surrender nothing, and as they retain everything, they have no ...
Vor 5 Tagen · When Lincoln offered full political rights to white Southerners who pledged loyalty to the Union, Longstreet wrote that, “If they desert their cause, they disgrace themselves in the eyes of God and of man.”. He ordered executions of black spies and helped devise the Confederacy’s strategy.
