September 9, Washington had had enough. If the laws are to be trampled upon with impunity, he said, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican govern...
Rockefeller equated silence with strength: Weak men had loose tongues and blabbed to reporters, while prudent businessmen kept their own counsel.
The Bank of the United States would enable the government to make good on four powers cited explicitly in the Constitution: the rights to collect taxes, borrow money, regulate trade among states, and...
In time, the government redefined the rules of the capitalist game to tame trusts and preserve competition, but as John D. Rockefeller set about building his fortune, the absence of clear-cut rules pr...
Seven months after Grant’s death, Julia received a whopping $200,000 check from Twain and $450,000 in the end—an astonishing sum for book royalties at the time. No previous book had ever sold so many...
The Federalist Papers ran to eighty-five essays, with fifty-one attributed to Hamilton, twenty-nine to Madison, and only five to Jay.
The Federalist-controlled Congress was maneuvering for partisan advantage and betraying an unbecoming nativist streak. Federalists wanted to curb an influx of Irish immigrants, who were usually pro-Fr...
It is the food of my hopes, the object of my wishes, the only enjoyment of my life - Alexander Hamilton
The Philadelphia mutiny had major repercussions in American history, for it gave rise to the notion that the national capital should be housed in a special federal district where it would never stand...
Strong executives and endorsed single ministers for war, foreign affairs, finance, and the navy:
Such conduct in a man high in office argues greater attachment to his own power than to the public good and furnishes strong reason to suspect a dangerous predetermination to oppose whatever may tend...
She liked to quote the maxim, To be a good wife and mother is the highest and hardest privilege of woman.27
Such is my opinion of your abilities as a critic, Hamilton addressed him directly, that I very much prefer your disapprobation to your applause.
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Some states, he noted, had paid their debts by ignoble means. New York, for instance, had reneged on interest payments to drive down the market value of its debt, making it cheaper for the state to bu...
It was between rival economic systems, each of which was aimed at generating its own men of property.13 In fact, the Federalist ranks had plenty of self-made lawyers like Hamilton, while the Republica...
The court approved Hamilton’s argument that this excise tax was legal and that Congress had power over every species of taxable property, except exports.5 The decision in Hylton v. United States not o...
In mid-May, he dictated a message for a reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic that had a touching, patriarchal tone: Tell the boys that they probably will never look into my face again, nor hear m...
The decades that she devoted to conserving her husband’s legacy made Eliza only more militantly loyal to his memory, and there was one injury she could never forget: the exposure of the Maria Reynolds...
The federal government had captured forever the bulk of American taxing power.
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