Since the day of Alexander Hamilton, the United States has never defaulted on the federal debt.
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Washington received four such wine coolers and gave one to longtime friend Alexander Hamilton.
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Alexander Hamilton was illegitimate, an immigrant from a troubled home, bursting with talent and ambition.
Names like Alexander Hamilton, Albert Einstein, Andrew Carnegie, Madeleine Albright and Sergey Brin speak for themselves.
' I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake.
That was the moment when Alexander Hamilton took the big step of federalising the states' debts.
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Just like Alexander Hamilton had no use for banks and Ben Franklin was suspicious of new machinery.
Bank of New York has been run from Wall Street since Alexander Hamilton founded it there in 1784.
Ambitious young men during this period, such as George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, adopted the manners of the elite.
In any event even the personal consequences for him have been far worse than those visited upon Alexander Hamilton.
Alexander Hamilton proposed a bi-metallic system of 15:1 which almost never worked effectively.
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You referenced the fact that Barack Obama reached way back into American history with this reference to Alexander Hamilton.
Monetary statesmen from Alexander Hamilton forward have faced circumstances far more dire than those of today and turned things around.
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Bogle is also erudite, sprinkling the text with references to the likes of Mark Twain, Thomas Paine and Alexander Hamilton.
Indeed, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton both feared and opposed the inclusion of a Bill of Rights in the Constitution.
For those interested in America's early financial history, there is a room dedicated to Alexander Hamilton, the first treasury secretary.
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The executive branch holds the sword, Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist No. 78, and the legislative branch the purse.
Under him, Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the treasury, created the economy of the U.S. A single currency was established.
After all, do you think the Constitution would have ever been written if Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton had Twitter accounts?
Anti-paper-money stalwarts include such weirdos as George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Paine, and John Marshall.
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Historians suggest that Alexander Hamilton was behind campaign fliers that hinted that his nemesis Aaron Burr was sleeping with his own daughter.
In one piece, Alexander Hamilton was called upon to explain the impeachment process to the people being asked to adopt the Constitution.
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Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers asked this question, 'Where else than in the Senate could have been found a tribunal .
The fiscally decentralized United States, under the common dollar of Alexander Hamilton, operated under these classic checks and balances for many prosperous decades.
Our government was once a junk bond credit and its debt traded at 15 cents on the dollar before Alexander Hamilton successfully restructured.
But I do think that it would help us all to be reminded of the words of Alexander Hamilton in Federalist number 65.
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The extraordinary legacies of Alexander Hamilton and John Marshall are in jeopardy, and we as a nation thereby face a far more uncertain future.
Mr Gore is waxing eloquent about the differences between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson on whether the principles of democracy were limited to America.
The Federalists, as exemplified by Alexander Hamilton, John Adams and John Marshall, were more consistently revolutionary in defense of rights than the Jeffersonian democrats were.
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Kaufer and colleagues have applied that approach to determine which parts of The Federalist Papers were written by James Madison and which by Alexander Hamilton.
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