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

Purchase of Louisiana

Source: “Purchase of Louisiana,” New-York Evening Post, July 5, 1803, Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0001-0101. At length the business of New-Orleans has terminated favourably to this

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