Jefferson and AARON BURR received the same number of electoral votes. The election was decided in the House of Representatives where each state wielded a single vote. Interestingly‚ the old Federalist Congress would make the decision‚ since the newly elected Republicans had not yet taken office. Most Federalists preferred Burr‚ and‚ once again‚ Alexander Hamilton shaped an unpredictable outcome. After numerous blocked ballots‚ Hamilton helped to secure the presidency for Jefferson‚ the man he felt
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and it’s political theory and philosophy was enormously influential to later works‚ such a The Federalist Papers. The Federalist Papers was series of essays‚ anonymously published defending the Constitution‚ written and published 1787-1788‚ the authors‚ Alexander Hamilton‚ James Madison‚ and John Jay‚ not
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national government. During this time a group of people called Federalists‚ among them John Jay‚ Alexander Hamilton and James Madison‚ tried to convince the public of the greatness in the constitution. John Jay‚ Alexander Hamilton and James Madison wrote a series of essays titled The Federalist Papers which discuss the different factors of the Constitution and why they are needed. In answer to the Federalist Papers a group of Anti-Federalist published papers discussing why the Constitution was too strong
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influential interpreters and advocates of the Constitution. He was one of the common writers of the Federalist papers‚ writing 51 out of the 85 papers. The Federalist papers were propaganda published in journals or newspapers‚ and their purpose was to educate citizens on why the Constitution should be ratified. They were always published under the pseudonym Publius to preserve their names from the public. In Federalist #23‚ Hamilton writes of how the Constitution must be energetic in order to have an energetic
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George Washington knew he could not manage the the growing nation alone so he established a cabinet to help him make decisions. As his Secretary of Treasury‚ George Washington appointed Alexander Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton became an important Federalist member of the first cabinet as the Secretary of Treasury. The financial situation of the country after the Revolution was the primary problem facing the new nation‚ and Hamilton developed a national bank to fix it. The national bank lent money
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Section II - Part A (Document-Based Questions) To what extent did the Federalist administrations of George Washington and John Adams promote national unity and advance the authority of the federal government? George Washington and John Adams were the first two presidents of the United States. As they had just fought a civil war against their oppressive mother country‚ it was only fitting that they were federalists. Federalists believed in national unity and a strong central government. They knew
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Montesquieu argument for the separation of powers‚ “he did not mean that these departments ought to have no partial agency in‚ or no control over‚ the acts of each other” (270). In Federalist paper #48‚ describes how the Federal Constitution provides a defense through a blend of the branches of government. In class‚ we discuss that in order to make the separation of powers work there is a need to find a way that the legislative branch
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22‚ 2013 Rhetorical Analysis of Federalist Paper No.15 Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist Paper No.15 expressed how he felt about the people and the government. Hamilton argued non-stop about the Constitution problems and how he would like to solve them. Hamilton had his own beliefs‚ fears‚ and assumptions about the arguments he faced with the Constitution‚ but he was not afraid to speak up and speak out about how he would solve them himself. In the Federalist paper No. 15‚ Alexander Hamilton
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Daniel Spioch New American Nation Spring 2013 Critical Book Review The Whiskey Rebellion by Thomas Slaughter Slaughter is a very interesting author who does not write like many of his peers on historic topics. Throughout the whole book‚ Slaughter does not give his own opinions on what happened during the Whiskey Rebellion‚ but rather‚ he gives non biased facts to present both arguments through primary and secondary sources. His book describes the actions that led up to the rebellion in western
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The arguments between the Anti-Federalists and Federalists led to the creation of a document that has stood the test of time and new governments have repeatedly modeled their governmental structure off of the Constitution. Despite the overwhelming majority of the Anti-Federalists’ concerns over many of the Constitution’s provisions being unfounded‚ their apprehensions regarding disproportionate amount of influence men of property could have on government officials have since become a scary reality
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