Unlimited Taxes and Militarism: Antifederalist Brutus No. 7
Brutus takes Alexander Hamilton to task over his support of power โwithout limitationโ to raise and fund armies in Federalist No. 23. He disputes the need, and argues it would reject the principles of the Revolution to form a militarized nation in the image of the...
It All Started with the Central Bank
The arguments supporting the creation of the First Bank of the U.S. became the basis for a loose constitutional construction that flipped the system on its head. Instead of a federal government exercising powers โfew and defined,โ it gave us a central government with...Alexander Hamilton flipped the switch - from expressly delegated powers under the #constitution - to pretty much whatever the people in power want to do under his doctrine of "implied powers." @mmaharrey10th pic.twitter.com/f9zNB1OYQF
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