
Cabinet Paper to the President
Answers to remaining questions proposed by the President of the United States on the 18th of April last QUESTION 4.—Are the United States obliged by good faith to consider

Answers to remaining questions proposed by the President of the United States on the 18th of April last QUESTION 4.—Are the United States obliged by good faith to consider

Question the Third proposed by the President of the United States.—”If a minister from the republic of France shall be received, shall it be absolutely, or with qualifications; and if

The Secretary of the Treasury having perused with attention the papers containing the opinions of the Secretary of State and Attorney General, concerning the constitutionality of the bill for establishing

Mr. Hamilton then reassumed his argument. When, said he, I had the honor to address the committe yesterday, I gave a history of the circumstances which attended the Convention, when

The Secretary of the Treasury, in obedience to the order of the House of Representatives of the 15th day of January, 1790, has applied his attention at as early a

[To the Speaker of the House of Representatives] The Secretary of the Treasury, in obedience to the resolution of the House of Representatives, of the twenty-first day of September last,

Mr. Chairman: The honorable member who spoke yesterday went into an explanation of a variety of circumstances to prove the expediency of a change in our National Government, and the

“Alexander Hamilton to George Washington,” July 3, 1787. In The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, Volume III, edited by Max Farrand. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911. https://www.loc.gov/resource/llscdam.llfr003/?st=gallery. In my passage through

“Alexander Hamilton to Rufus King,” August 28, 1787. In The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, Volume III, edited by Max Farrand. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911. https://www.loc.gov/resource/llscdam.llfr003/?st=gallery. Dear Sir, I wrote
Sir Flattering myself that your knowledge of me will induce you to receive that observations I make as dictated by a regard to the public good, I take the liberty