Authors: Alexander Hamilton

Cabinet Paper to the President

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

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1787–1789

First Speech of June 21

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

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1789–1825

First Report on Public Credit

[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,

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1787–1789

Letter from Alexander Hamilton to Rufus King (1787)

“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

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