Alexander Hamilton
historical figure · 2 works · 8 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Hamilton · Mr. Hamilton · H.
in the texts
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
Author, under the mark 'H.', of several quoted Federalist essays discussing the security the division of power provides against usurpation by the general government.
“The general government can have no temptation to absorb the local authorities left with the states.
“In the compound republick of America, the power surrendered by the people, is first divided between two distinct governments, and the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments.
P. 288. H. “The federal legislature will not only be restrained by its dependance on the people, but it will be moreover watched and controuled by the several collateral legislatures.”
The Rights of War and Peace
American statesman and co-author of The Federalist.
This section embraces such names as Grotius, Plato, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Adam Smith, Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Walter Batgehot, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Machiavelli, as well as those builders of Ideal Governments, More, Bacon, Campanella and Rousseau.
When Hamilton, Madison, and Jay first conceived the idea of printing in the common tongue their ideas upon the principles of free government, they unwittingly laid the foundations of the best commentary on the principles of popular government ever written.