Showing posts with label Hamilton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hamilton. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Hamilton and the Removal Power

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Previous posts have discussed the appointment and removal of executive branch officials . Gary Schmitt at AEI : During the First Congres...
Saturday, December 13, 2025

Abusing the Pardon Power

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 Many   posts  have  addressed  the  president's   pardon   power . Stephen Holmes at the Project Syndicate: The pardon power is the on...
Friday, April 18, 2025

Stashing Away Residents of this Country

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    The Trump administratio n is  snatching people without due process .  UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALSFOR THE FOURTH CIRCUITNo. 25-1404(8:...
Saturday, July 27, 2024

Tariffs Are Bad

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 Phillip W. Magness at Cato: James Madison viewed tariffs as necessary to raise revenue but was caught off-guard by early attempts to enact...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

The Founders and Current Events

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  Many   posts  have  discussed  the  Founding . David Frum at The Atlantic : Two political myths inspired the dreams and haunted the nightm...
Friday, June 9, 2023

Indictment of a Former President

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 Trump is under indictment.  Austin Sarat : The Constitution’s authors contemplated the arrest of a current or former president . At severa...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Statesmanship

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Daniel Stid at National Affairs : To understand why even these acts of statesmanship appear increasingly rare in American politics, we can ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Hamilton and Slavery

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Jennifer Schuessler at NYT: The question has lingered around the edges of the pop-culture ascendancy of Alexander Hamilton : Did the 10-dol...
Friday, September 18, 2020

Foreign Influence on Elections

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Federalist 22 : One of the weak sides of republics, among their numerous advantages, is that they afford too easy an inlet to foreign corrup...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

Hamilton on Natural Rights

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Tony Williams at RealClearPublicAffairs : After serving a brief time in Congress, Hamilton became an attorney in New York. His dedication ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

The Constitutionality of Shutdown Orders

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Walter Olson at Cato: If you want to know whether something is unconstitutional, one group you might ask is judges. And in early rounds of...
Thursday, January 2, 2020

Courts, Civic Education, and Social Media

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Chief Justice John Roberts's annual report :   Hamilton , Madison , and Jay ultimately succeeded in convincing the public of the virt...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Happy Constitution Day

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Yuval Levin at AEI : Populism and elitism are each in its way a kind of politics of hubris. Each is rooted in a plainly unreasonable view ...
Wednesday, July 10, 2019

"The Only Path to a Subversion"

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Alexander Hamilton, Objections and Answers Respecting the Administration, 18 August 1792: The truth unquestionably is, that the only path...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

The Cost of the American Revolution

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Jay Cost at National Review : On an absolute scale, the American Revolution was a relatively modest affair. However, judged in light of th...
Sunday, January 13, 2019

The Coast Guard and the Shutdown

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Our textbook discusses the Coast Guard .  which has moved over the years from Treasury ( where it started in 1790 under Alexander Hamilton ...
Thursday, November 22, 2018

Thanksgiving Proclamations

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Richard Samuelson at Law and Liberty: George Washington set the tone for the office in many ways, none more so than in his Thanksgiving Pr...
Monday, October 8, 2018

Kagan on the Court

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Justice Elena Kagan spoke at Princeton. I transcribed the entirety of Justice Elena Kagan's answer about the Supreme Court and inst...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Jeff Flake on Free Press and Fake News

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Remarks in the Senate by Jeff Flake of Arizona: Mr. President, so powerful is the presidency that the damage done by the sustained attack ...
Saturday, April 8, 2017

Presidential Self-Restraint

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Christopher Nadon writes at The Weekly Standard : According to the popular-again Alexander Hamilton , “Energy in the executive is a leadi...