Authors: Alexander Hamilton

1789–1825

The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates

Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, Pacificus-Helvidius Debates (June 1793– October 1793), Founders Online, https://founders.archives.gov/?q=Pacificus&s=1111311111&sa=&r=7&sr=; https://founders.archives.gov/?q=Helvidius&s=1111311111&sa=&r=9&sr=; https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-15-02-0070. Pacificus I | Alexander Hamilton | June 29, 1793 As attempts are making very

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1787–1789

Federalist 78

Source: Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, The Federalist, Gideon Edition, ed. George W. Carey and James McClellan (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001), 401–408. . . .In unfolding the defects

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The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates

“Pacificus No. 1, [29 June 1793],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-15-02-0038; “Helvidius” Number 1, [24 August] 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-15-02-0056; “Helvidius” Number 4, [14 September] 1793,” Founders Online,

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Views on the French Revolution

Alexander Hamilton, “Views on the French Revolution,” 1794, available at https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0002-0442. Facts, numerous and unequivocal, demonstrate that the present era is among the most extraordinary which have occurred in the

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1787–1789

Federalist 1

George W. Carey and James McClellan, eds., The Federalist: The Gideon Edition (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001), 1, available at https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/jay-the-federalist-gideon-ed. After an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting

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1787–1789

Federalist 35

Source: George W. Carey and James McClellan, eds., The Federalist: The Gideon Edition, (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001) To the people of the state of New York: . . . One

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1787–1789

Federalist 55

Source: George W. Carey and James McClellan, eds., The Federalist: The Gideon Edition, (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001) To the people of the state of New York: THE number of which

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1789–1825

Pacificus No. 1

Source: Pacificus No. 1, in The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates of 1793–1794, ed. Morton J. Frisch (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2007), pp. 8–18. As attempts are making very dangerous to the peace,

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1764–1787

The Farmer Refuted…

Source: Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, &c., [February 23,] 1775, Founders Online, National Archives (first published in Harold C. Syrett and Jacob E. Cooke, eds., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton,

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1789–1825

Ch. 8: The Whiskey Rebellion

Anonymous, An Exciseman, c. 1791 Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, “The Disagreeable Crisis in the Western Counties,” August 5, 1794 George Washington, Whiskey Rebellion Proclamation, August 7, 1794 (Alexander Hamilton),

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