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Alexander Hamilton and James Madison1788 – Federalist No. 62
Category: Government

“No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.”

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Reference: The Federalist

“Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense.

Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure.”

– Thomas Jefferson (letter to William Johnson, 1823)

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To understand the nature of this blog and some of the driving historical references of my thinking, look no further than the distinguished gentleman below, from whom I borrowed my pen name.

Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804). New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention (1787), major author of the Federalist papers, and first secretary of the Treasury of the United States (1789–95), who was the foremost champion of a strong central government for the new United States.