The works of Locke, Montesquieu, Hobbes, and Hume, as well as those of such reigning legal sages as Sir William Blackstone, Hugo Grotius, and Samuel von Pufendorf. He was especially taken with the jur...
Washington replied, I always knew Colonel Hamilton to be a man of superior talents, but never supposed that he had any knowledge of finance. He knows everything, sir, Morris replied. To a mind like hi...
Now, for reasons both symbolic and practical, the crowd pulled George III down from his pedestal, decapitating him in the process. The four thousand pounds of gilded lead was rushed off to Litchfield,...
Packard and Giles entreated Rockefeller for a donation to secure the school on a permanent footing: Give it a name; let it if you please be called Rockefeller College, or if you prefer let it take you...
On June 20, at Johnson’s behest, Attorney General James Speed ordered the U.S. attorney in Norfolk to abandon Lee’s prosecution. On the same day, Grant informed Lee that no further actions would be ta...
If a white man kills a black, he cannot be tried for his life for the murder. . . . If a negro strikes a white man, he is punished with the loss of his hand and, if he should draw blood, with death.
Washington told Pickering that it would be political suicide to recruit anyone into his administration who was not prepared to support his programs wholeheartedly.18 He had learned his lesson with Jef...
The Senate’s composition introduced a lasting political bias in American life in favor of smaller states. Left
Looked more like a grizzled, weather-beaten prospector than a former president. When he bet Julia that she wouldn’t dare to descend into the mine, located seventeen hundred feet below, it roused her f...
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Some states, such as Massachusetts and South Carolina, struggled with heavy debts and were glad to be relieved by the central government. Others, such as Virginia and North Carolina, had settled most...
The government must degenerate either into an absolute and despotic monarchy or a tyrannical aristocracy.
How exactly the debt should be funded was to be the most inflammatory political issue. During the Revolution, many affluent citizens had invested in bonds, and many war veterans had been paid with IOU...
The evening of Hamilton’s death, New York’s leading merchants exhorted one another to shutter their shops for a state funeral hastily arranged for Saturday, July 14. The corpse is already putrid, Gouv...
John Adams summed up the case succinctly: In general, our generals have been outgeneralled.
Hamilton cast himself as a warm advocate for limited monarchy and an unfeigned well-wisher to the present royal family.
Has seldom been without its evils. It is to this source we are to trace many of the fatal mistakes which have so deeply endangered the common cause, particularly that defect which will be the object o...
Who were these solons rhapsodized by Benjamin Franklin as the most august and respectable assembly he was ever in in his life?44 The fifty-five delegates representing twelve states—the renegade Rhode...
Shiloh, but it sorely disappointed the Century editors. Written in Grant’s pithy style, it was arid and compact and read like a bloodless report. Johnson hurried over to Long Branch for a pep talk wit...
Wanted England to heed the peace treaty and relinquish its western forts in the Ohio River valley. The one place where Hamilton deviated from official policy was in applauding Britain’s refusal to han...
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