The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Political essays [etc., 1792-1804] Contents. IndexJ.F. Trow, Printer, 1851 |
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... principle , upon which he proceeds , is not less absurd than his calculations are fallacious . With as much propriety might an executor be charged with increasing the debts of his testator , by suffering the arrears of interest on his ...
... principle , upon which he proceeds , is not less absurd than his calculations are fallacious . With as much propriety might an executor be charged with increasing the debts of his testator , by suffering the arrears of interest on his ...
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... principle candidly applied , namely , that of setting off the surplus of revenue , to the end of the year 1790 , against the amount of the debt redeemed by purchases and pay- ments , the account would have stood thus- Debtor Side . To ...
... principle candidly applied , namely , that of setting off the surplus of revenue , to the end of the year 1790 , against the amount of the debt redeemed by purchases and pay- ments , the account would have stood thus- Debtor Side . To ...
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... principles of Mr. Hamilton's fiscal administration , —that is , the leading principles of those measures which have provided for the public debt and restored public credit . It would have been well if " Aristides " had told us what ...
... principles of Mr. Hamilton's fiscal administration , —that is , the leading principles of those measures which have provided for the public debt and restored public credit . It would have been well if " Aristides " had told us what ...
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... principles of that institution . " I proceed now to state the exact tenor of the advice which Mr. Jefferson gave to ... principle as unjust and impolitic . If the sentiment contained in the extract which has been re- cited , can be ...
... principles of that institution . " I proceed now to state the exact tenor of the advice which Mr. Jefferson gave to ... principle as unjust and impolitic . If the sentiment contained in the extract which has been re- cited , can be ...
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... principle of rotation to have extended not only to the executive , but to the other branches of the government , to ... principles of stable and systematic government , dis- posed to multiply the outworks , and leave the citadel 54 [ ÆT ...
... principle of rotation to have extended not only to the executive , but to the other branches of the government , to ... principles of stable and systematic government , dis- posed to multiply the outworks , and leave the citadel 54 [ ÆT ...
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Página 589 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled, men, will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government ; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Página 584 - But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth, as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed...
Página 821 - There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution can be valid.
Página 584 - ... that your union and brotherly affection may be perpetual; that the free constitution which is the work of your hands may be sacredly maintained; that its administration in every department may be stamped with wisdom and virtue; that, in fine, the happiness of the people of these States, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete...
Página 594 - ... is always a choice of difficulties) ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for obtaining revenue which the public exigencies may at any time dictate.
Página 581 - The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprize you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those, out of whom...
Página 597 - ... very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence therefore it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities. Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course.
Página 275 - America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britannic Majesty, and those of his most Christian Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...
Página 589 - ... till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government, pre-supposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
Página 821 - It is far more rational to suppose that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the legislature, in order, among other things, to keep the latter within the limits assigned to their authority.