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The Classical Orator as Political Representative: Cicero and the Modern Concept of Representation
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Gary A. Remer
Published: 14 March 2017
... Mill Cicero representation political representation orator Edmund Burke The Federalist Publius James Madison Alexander Hamilton John Stuart Mill Contemporary scholars largely agree that political representation is a modern phenomenon. Hannah Pitkin (1967) states: “The concept...
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Published: 26 April 2016
... and strictly” implemented congressional laws about custom-house bonds. In 1791, and after consultation with Alexander Hamilton, Olney had followed the letter of the law in denying custom-house credit to a merchant named Welcome Arnold, whose previous bonds, to the tune of almost $2,000, were past due. “I...
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Conclusion
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Howard Pashman
Published: 30 April 2018
...Elite New Yorkers such as Alexander Hamilton began rewriting the history of the American Revolution almost as soon as the war had ended. In early 1784, just months after the British had evacuated New York City, Hamilton tried to convince New Yorkers that the property redistribution that remained so...
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Thomas Jefferson
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Steven G. Calabresi and Christopher S. Yoo
Published: 02 September 2008
... and independent of legislative control, opposing what he perceived as an attempt by Alexander Hamilton to insinuate himself into the legislative activities of the House of Representatives. Anti Federalists Constitution Gallatin Albert Hamilton Alexander House of Representatives Jefferson Thomas Madison...
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The Progress of a Progressive
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Joshua David Hawley
Published: 24 March 2008
... of Alexander Hamilton's advocacy of executive power, his rights-positivism and nationalist leanings, and his desire to make the Republican Party a progressive party. Aldrich Nelson Iowa Idea La Follette Robert Marion pro regulation movement coalescing Roosevelt Theodore Junior accepting father's stern...
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Liberalism, Republicanism, and Finance
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Christopher W. Calvo
Published: 25 February 2020
... intervention in state and national financial markets. This chapter argues for the reorganization of the conventional dialectic between finance and capitalism, highlighting critical nuances in the literature. Besides Alexander Hamilton, few Americans accepted finance as a desirable or necessary feature...
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“Through a Wilderness of Difficulties” President of Pennsylvania, 1782–1785
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Jane E. Calvert
Published: 21 November 2024
... with the Pennamite-Yankee War on the norther border, and attempted secession by “Westsylvania” on the south-western border, Indian attacks on the frontier, a munity of Continental soldiers that put Dickinson at odds with Alexander Hamilton, and several court cases that challenged the stability of the state...
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The Polite and the Plebeian
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Michael Zuckerman
Published: 28 December 2012
...In May 1774, Alexander Hamilton set off from his home in Annapolis and embarked on a journey from Delaware to modern-day Maine. His travels took him to eight very different colonies, and he recorded his impressions of the diverse customs and habits of the people he met in a journal that he called...
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The Semiotics of the Founders
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Michael J. Drexler and Ed White
Published: 11 July 2014
...This chapter provides a basic literary history of the formation of the four major figures: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson. At the outset of the so-called “Founding Fathers” is primarily a literary and symbolic phenomenon that requires certain reading...
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The Emergence of the Judiciary
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Gordon S. Wood
Published: 22 July 2021
... of the constitution, are to be judicially set aside as void, and of no effect.” 12 It was left to Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 78, however, to draw out most fully the logic of this argument. The so-called representatives of the people in the state legislatures, said Hamilton, did...
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The Fruits of Victory
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Kevin J. Weddle
Published: 08 April 2021
... Island Rochambeau Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur comte de King Louis XVI Vergennes Benjamin Franklin Conway Cabal Horatio Gates George Washington James Wilkinson Alexander Hamilton French Alliance diplomacy For two weeks after it happened, as we’ve seen, Washington had received only...
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The Ten Dollar Opera: Hamilton as a New Modernism
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Stuart J. Hecht
Published: 24 June 2021
... Aaron Chernow Ron Hamilton Alexander Hamilton Elizabeth Schuyler Macheath Peachum Peachum Polly Schuyler Philip Treasury George III “You’ll Be Back ” Pepusch Johann Christoph Brecht Bertolt Hauptmann Elisabeth Marxism Threepenny Opera The Weill Kurt Epic Theater Cabaret costumes...
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Hamilton’s Gendered Entanglements
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Stacy Wolf
Published: 24 June 2021
..., particularly the one between Hamilton and Burr, to be the most complex in the show. American Revolution Blankenbuehler Andy ensemble gender George III Goldsberry Renée Elise Hamilton Alexander Hamilton Elizabeth Schuyler Jones Jasmine Cephas liminality Miranda Lin Manuel Reynolds Maria Schuyler...
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“Banco Mania” and Institutional Drift
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Eric Lomazoff
Published: 07 November 2018
... States national bank Early American Republic state banks scripomania institutional change institutional drift Alexander Hamilton Thomas Jefferson In the course of reviewing Alexander Hamilton’s proposals for enhancing public credit in the previous chapter , I did little more than gloss over one...
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The French and American Smiths
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Iain McLean
Published: 13 July 2006
... believed that the foundation of the state should be the ‘virtuous farmer’. Alexander Hamilton followed Sir James Steuart rather than Smith. Smith was probably an enemy of the French Revolution. Many of the generation of intellectuals who understood and admired Smith were depleted in the Revolution...
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The Political Economy of Industrial Policy
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Mina Toksöz and others
Published: 06 December 2023
... 2000–1 banking and payments crisis energy sector investment incentives Justice and Development Party AKP middle income trap patronage protectionist trend textiles State capacity Institutional embeddedness Late industrialisers Infant industry Alexander Hamilton Friedrich List Ha-Joon Chang...
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Friedrich List’s Idiosyncratic Synthesis
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Eric Helleiner
Published: 15 November 2021
...This chapter discusses Friedrich List's idiosyncratic synthesis. While embracing the ideas of economic liberalism, List's 1841 book was a new version of neomercantilist ideology that soon attracted supporters around the world. Similar to Alexander Hamilton, List prioritized the cultivation...
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Defending an Energetic Executive: Theory and Practice in The Federalist
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Claire Rydell Arcenas
Published: 08 June 2021
...In Federalist 70, Alexander Hamilton (writing as Publius) argued that an energetic executive, as envisioned by Article II of the United States Constitution, was essential to good government. To clinch his argument, he relied on a contrast between theory and practice that seems...
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Equality
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Allen C. Guelzo
Published: 26 February 2009
... equality Benjamin Franklin Alexander Hamilton Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln Thomas Paine Abraham Lincoln's forebears arrived in the New World in the 1630s, in the first great wave of English migration across the north Atlantic. The Lincolns had been a family of middling gentry in Norfolk, a county...
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The journey from Westphalia to Philadelphia
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Stella Z. Theodoulou and Ravi K. Roy
Published: 22 August 2016
... of America USA Kettl Donald Madison James Hamilton Alexander Jefferson Thomas decentralization decentralization Alexander Hamilton Thomas Jefferson James Madison treaty Peace of Westphalia Let us now continue with a historical overview of the Anglo-American administrative traditions that have...
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