Alexander Hamilton

Constitution Check: Would an Elected Supreme Court Get More Respect?

Lyle Denniston | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Alexander Hamilton, Gordon Wood, Joseph R. Grodin, Constitutional Convention, Gay Marriage, Health Care, Maureen Dowd, Judicial Branch, Federalist Papers, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, US Supreme Court, Supreme Court Justices, Supreme Court Health Care, Politics News

Among scholars who want the U.S. Supreme Court changed, most want term limits, not elections. The reason seems obvious, given the politics of the day.

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Mother America Always Loved Manufacturing Most

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 04.28.2012

It's illogical, even unpatriotic to use tax dollars to subsidize companies that send jobs overseas, transferring America's manufacturing power to foreign countries like China.

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Pitchers, Catchers... and Signers Report: a Founding Fathers Baseball Dream Team

Michael Simzak | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Roger Sherman, Jonathan Dayton, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Major League Baseball, James Madison, James Wilson, Gouvernor Morris, George Mason, Benjamin Franklin, John Dickinson, Constitution, Founding Fathers, Sports News

If the framers of the Constitution were a baseball team, who would they be and what position would they play?

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Calling Wealthy Democrats

Brent Budowsky | Posted 04.10.2012

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Citizens United destroys the American notion of citizenship by creating separate and unequal classes of Americans. It creates a de facto American House of Lords, in which all other Americans are relegated to second-class citizenship.

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Where Is Hamilton When Europe Needs Him?

James Bacchus | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: France, Europe, Germany, European Institutions, Monetary Union, Brussels Summit, Alexander Hamilton, Euro Bonds, Euro Zone, Sovereign Debt Crisis, European Debt Crisis, European Union, Euro, Business News

The fundamental problem is that for all their summiting, for all their meticulous planning, and for all their considerable progress together for more than half a century, there is still no one country called "Europe."

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The American Spring

Ronald Ricker | Posted 01.28.2012

Somewhere, sometime, accelerating rapidly recently, we Americans have lost it--the American Dream. We were the land of opportunity, the land of equa...

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America's First Political Sex Scandal: The Reynolds/Hamilton Affair

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.07.2012

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In the summer of 1791, Alexander Hamilton was the target of what a modern-day espionage novel would call a "honey trap," set by a blonde 23-year-old named Maria Reynolds.

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Alexander Hamilton Home Reopens In NYC After Move

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 11.19.2011

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NEW YORK — The former home of founding father Alexander Hamilton has reopened to the public after a four-year rehabilitation that saw the two-centur...

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The Constitution We Nearly Had

Robert J. Spitzer | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Alexander Hamilton, Treaties, Presidential Veto, Founding Fathers, Constitution Day, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Constitutional Convention, U.S. Constitution, Constitution, Original Intent, Tea Party, Rick Perry, Politics News

Imagine a very different Constitution -- one where Congress could kill any state law, where a twenty-six member Senate controlled treaty-making with other nations, and where the president's veto was exercised jointly with the Supreme Court.

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Is the Constitution Breaking Down Under Divided Government?

Lyle Denniston | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Congress, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Tea Party, Politics News

If Madison could see the role that partisan factions played in Washington this summer, he might well have been sympathetic to the concerns of those observers who fret that his constitutional remedies might not be working so well when power is shared by two rival factions.

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Spirit Of Independence: Best Books On Founding Fathers (And A Few Mothers Too)

Posted 09.03.2011

Read More: War of Independence, Samuel Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father Books, Thomas Paine, Founding Mothers, Revolutionary War, John Adams, Patrick Henry, James Madison, Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, 4th of July Books, Books News

Yes, we know the 4th of July is more about fireworks and picnics than the Revolutionary War, but we are, after all, celebrating American Independence....

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Strauss-Kahn and the Age of Reputation

Steve Clemons | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Andrew Breitbart, Alexander Hamilton, Reputation, James Callender, Tom Vilsack, William Safire, International Monetary Fund, Shirley Sherrod, Imf, Thomas Jefferson, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Slander, Scandalmonger, Blogging, Dsk, World News

In today's fast-paced world, a reputation can be destroyed rapidly -- and if, as in the case of Strauss-Kahn it seems, the consequences of charges made actually precede the processing of those charges.

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Simon Johnson: Europe Needs Trichet’s Unified Finance Ministry

Bloomberg | Simon Johnson | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Alexander Hamilton, Maastricht Treaty, Greece, Jean-Claude Trichet, Washington DC, European Union, Greek Debt Crisis, New York, European Central Bank, Euro, Business News

Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank until October, last week floated two proposals aimed at dealing with Greece and related eu...

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McCain Dethrones the Rule of Law

Bruce Fein | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Law, Alexander Hamilton, Congress, President Obama, Federal Reserve, James Madison, UN Security Council, U.S. Constitution, Pentagon Budget, Common Sense, Robert Jackson, Libya, UN Convention Against Torture, Enemy Combatants, John Bassett Moore, Constitution, Predator Drones, War Powers Resolution, Pentagon, John McCain, Thomas Paine, Libya War, State Secrets, Thomas Jefferson, James Wilson, Democrats, U.S. Supreme Court, Military Commissions, Patriot Act, Department of Treasury, U.S. Senate, War Powers Act, Fisa, Republicans, Politics News

John McCain's latest war gospel hangs an alarming tale. The rule of law has been dethroned and the president has been endowed with absolute power as the American Empire has eclipsed the American Republic.

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The Constitution and the Tea Party Part Company

Bruce Fein | Posted 07.16.2011

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If Tea Party Caucus Members wish to keep their constitutional escutcheons unsullied, they should not tarry in taking legislative action against unconstitutional presidential wars and unconstitutional unaudited military spending.

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Economic Conflicts of the Founding Era Dispel Tea Party Myths... and Liberal Ones, Too

William Hogeland | Posted 07.10.2011

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Just as in Tea Party history, which sees the American people as essentially anti-government, an act of faith is required to see the American people as essentially socially progressive (or essentially anything).

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Still Looking for Alexander

David O. Stewart | Posted 06.13.2011

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If good intentions and a lively imagination were all that counted, the documentary Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton would be a masterwork.

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Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton: A Strange Journey

Michael Pack | Posted 05.25.2011

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As we set out to make an historical documentary on Alexander Hamilton, our goal was to make a different kind of history film. We've all seen Ken Burns narrations or History Channel reenactments, so it's time for something new.

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WATCH: Was Alexander Hamilton President?

Posted 05.25.2011

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It's Presidents Day, the day where we honor the men who've served as our Commander-in-Chief. But unless you know your history, you might be celebratin...

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The Founding Fathers Were Not Libertarians

Daniel Cluchey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cato Institute, Alexander Hamilton, New Deal, Federalism, Ayn Rand, Abraham Lincoln, Founding Fathers, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Small Government, Libertarian, Big Government, Financial Regulation, Politics News

While I strongly disagree with the modern libertarian movement, I understand why my government-averse friends believe the things they believe, as opposed to, say, my friends who are Yankee fans.

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Why Obama Must Embrace the Veto Strategy

Robert J. Spitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barack Obama understands that the country wants a president who acts. And as the new, Tea Party-tainted Congress is spoiling for confrontation, now is the ideal moment for a true veto strategy.

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Alexander Hamilton's Religion: A Temperate Example For Today's Fractured World

Matt J. Rossano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Revolution, Religion and Politics, Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, American History, Founding Father Biography, Religion in America, Alexander Hamilton Biography, Ron Chernow, Religion and Democracy, Religion News

Which Hamilton -- the pious Christian, the deist, the skeptic, the religious free-marketeer -- would pass judgment on the secular/religious debates of contemporary America?

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American Exceptionalism Is Un-American

Bruce Fein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The boast of American exceptionalism betrays ignorance of the Founding Fathers and the tarnished history of the United States. In any event, to overlook faults because other nations are more flawed is juvenile, and leads nowhere.

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Let's Have a Red-White-and-Blue Friday

James P. Hoffa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nafta, Thom Hartmann, Black Friday, Cafta, Free Trade, Labor Unions, Fair Trade, China, Alexander Hamilton, Protectionism, Business News

Something to think about if you're out shopping on Black Friday is that many of the products sold at retail stores were made in China.

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The Great Political Party Tango

Dr. Philip Neches | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Democrats, Two-Party System, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News

History buffs, take note: the odds are you won't see anything like this again even if you live to be 100.

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