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Showing posts with label alexander hamilton. Show all posts
Sunday, December 24, 2017

The Banking Interests Behind the New Deal

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In 2014 Nomi Prins wrote this piece in Fortune about the bankers behind the New Deal.  The New Deal was a banking revolution. The social...
Friday, February 15, 2013

The Anti-Federalists Are the Best Part of America

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I am in the middle of Jackson Turner Main's The Anti-Federalists: Critics of the Constitution 1781-1788. Main is a great historian who ...
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Monday, July 18, 2011

The Federal Budget and the Crisis of Democracy

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This chart shows that there is little difference between Ryan's and Obama's budget proposals  That the Ryan proposal created contr...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

What Would Hamilton Say about Congress's Debt Limit Debate?

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I am reading Ron Chernow's excellent biography Alexander Hamilton. On page 300 he discusses Hamilton's first Report on Public Credit...
Friday, July 8, 2011

Hamilton: A Miniseries?

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Dear HBO:  I am in the middle of Ron Chernow's 2004 "Alexander Hamilton."  I loved the "John Adams" mini-series; how...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

The Second Amendment and the Doctrine of Probable Use

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There are frequent discussions of whether to limit the ownership of various kinds of weapons such as assault rifles, machine guns and the li...

Every American Is Morally Obliged to Own a Gun

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I have previously blogged about the Federalist 29 in which Alexander Hamilton discusses the militia. The militia, the body of citizens whic...
Friday, March 27, 2009

Hamilton on Pecuniary Bounties

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Pecuniary bounties or direct subsidies to private firms have been a hot topic under the Bush and Obama administrations. In his Report on Man...
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Alexander Hamilton on the Presidential Administration of Barack Obama

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"The debt...may be swelled to such a size, as that the greatest part of it may cease to be useful as a Capital, serving only to pamper ...
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Alexander Hamilton's Socialism for the Rich

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Alexander Hamilton was the first American "progressive". He advocated government intervention on behalf of economic development. H...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Hamilton on Banks, Paper Money and the First Subprime Bailout

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Alexander Hamilton began the tradition of big government conservatism. His followers have included Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roo...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Hamilton on Federalism: The Federalist Papers No. 32-34

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The Federalist Nos. 32 and 33 concern taxation. The constitution did not aim to consolidate the states into a single whole. Rather, "th...
Monday, August 18, 2008

Alexander Hamilton on the Second Amendment

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Hamilton's Federalist No. 29 is about the issue of regulating militias. On the one hand, it was necessary to form a "well regulated...
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The Federalists' Error: National Size and the Evolution of Faction: Progressivism's Hamiltonian Root

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Montesquieu had argued that only small republics are possible, but Madison and Hamilton argued the reverse. Their claim was that small repub...

Hamilton on the Limits of Decentralization

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Federalism has always meant a partnership among the states and between the states and the federal government. Just as there are certain publ...
Sunday, July 13, 2008

Stanley Elkins's and Eric McKitrick's Age of Federalism

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Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick. The Age of Federalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 925 pages. Available at Amazon.com for $...