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Federalist 1 Published October 27, 1787
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| Alexander Hamilton
Posted on 10/27/2013 3:55:04 PM PDT by Loud Mime
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10/27/2013 3:55:04 PM PDT
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Loud Mime
To: Loud Mime
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posted on
10/27/2013 3:57:35 PM PDT
by
Loud Mime
(Liberal: greedy person who charges their grandchildren for today's party)
To: Publius; Billthedrill; Jacquerie
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posted on
10/27/2013 3:58:08 PM PDT
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Loud Mime
(Liberal: greedy person who charges their grandchildren for today's party)
To: Loud Mime
Thank you for posting this.
As an aside, as a great read, , “America’s Money, America’s Story” is written by Richard Doty, a history of America’s money...wow. It is written like a novel and I highly recommend it. It could be a stand alone history class book for a college course.
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posted on
10/27/2013 4:01:58 PM PDT
by
CincyRichieRich
(“Life is hard, but it’s harder when you’re stupid.” John Wayne)
To: Loud Mime
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posted on
10/27/2013 4:58:05 PM PDT
by
Jacquerie
(An Article V amendment convention is our only hope.)
To: Loud Mime
The meaning of the following section from FP#1 eludes me. What is Hamilton on about here?
"An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power and hostile to the principles of liberty. An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as mere pretense and artifice, the stale bait for popularity at the expense of the public good. It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and illiberal distrust. On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the contemplation of a sound and well-informed judgment, their interest can never be separated; and that a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government."
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posted on
10/27/2013 5:09:03 PM PDT
by
Amagi
(Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
To: Loud Mime
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posted on
10/27/2013 5:10:47 PM PDT
by
Amagi
(Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
To: Loud Mime
Hamilton was a fabulous and FAST writer. Then, as today, there were conflicting, self serving interests that made union a precarious thing. I don't think today's populace is more divided now than it was in 1787-1788. If that is so, there is reason to believe we can overcome a hundred years of progressivism and return to our traditions.
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posted on
10/27/2013 5:16:21 PM PDT
by
Jacquerie
(An Article V amendment convention is our only hope.)
To: Loud Mime
FReeper Book Club: The Debate over the Constitution5 Oct 1787, Centinel #16 Oct 1787, James Wilson’s Speech at the State House8 Oct 1787, Federal Farmer #19 Oct 1787, Federal Farmer #218 Oct 1787, Brutus #122 Oct 1787, John DeWitt #127 Oct 1787, John DeWitt #227 Oct 1787, Federalist #131 Oct 1787, Federalist #23 Nov 1787, Federalist #35 Nov 1787, John DeWitt #37 Nov 1787, Federalist #410 Nov 1787, Federalist #514 Nov 1787, Federalist #615 Nov 1787, Federalist #720 Nov 1787, Federalist #821 Nov 1787, Federalist #923 Nov 1787, Federalist #1024 Nov 1787, Federalist #1127 Nov 1787, Federalist #1227 Nov 1787, Cato #528 Nov 1787, Federalist #1329 Nov 1787, Brutus #430 Nov 1787, Federalist #141 Dec 1787, Federalist #154 Dec 1787, Federalist #165 Dec 1787, Federalist #177 Dec 1787, Federalist #188 Dec 1787, Federalist #1911 Dec 1787, Federalist #2012 Dec 1787, Federalist #2114 Dec 1787, Federalist #2218 Dec 1787, Federalist #2318 Dec 1787, Address of the Pennsylvania Minority19 Dec 1787, Federalist #2421 Dec 1787, Federalist #2522 Dec 1787, Federalist #2625 Dec 1787, Federalist #2726 Dec 1787, Federalist #2827 Dec 1787, Brutus #628 Dec 1787, Federalist #301 Jan 1788, Federalist #313 Jan 1788, Federalist #323 Jan 1788, Federalist #333 Jan 1788, Cato #74 Jan 1788, Federalist #345 Jan 1788, Federalist #358 Jan 1788, Federalist #3610 Jan 1788, Federalist #2911 Jan 1788, Federalist #3715 Jan 1788, Federalist #3816 Jan 1788, Federalist #3918 Jan 1788, Federalist #4019 Jan 1788, Federalist #4122 Jan 1788, Federalist #4223 Jan 1788, Federalist #4324 Jan 1788, Brutus #1025 Jan 1788, Federalist #4426 Jan 1788, Federalist #4529 Jan 1788, Federalist #4631 Jan 1788, Brutus #111 Feb 1788, Federalist #471 Feb 1788, Federalist #485 Feb 1788, Federalist #495 Feb 1788, Federalist #507 Feb 1788, Brutus #12, Part 18 Feb 1788, Federalist #518 Feb 1788, Federalist #5212 Feb 1788, Federalist #5312 Feb 1788, Federalist #5414 Feb 1788, Brutus #12, Part 215 Feb 1788, Federalist #5519 Feb 1788, Federalist #5619 Feb 1788, Federalist #5720 Feb 1788, Federalist #5822 Feb 1788, Federalist #5926 Feb 1788, Federalist #6026 Feb 1788, Federalist #6127 Feb 1788, Federalist #621 Mar 1788, Federalist #637 Mar 1788, Federalist #647 Mar 1788, Federalist #6511 Mar 1788, Federalist #6611 Mar 1788, Federalist #6714 Mar 1788, Federalist #6814 Mar 1788, Federalist #6915 Mar 1788, Federalist #7018 Mar 1788, Federalist #7120 Mar 1788, Brutus #1521 Mar 1788, Federalist #7221 Mar 1788, Federalist #7325 Mar 1788, Federalist #7426 Mar 1788, Federalist #751 Apr 1788, Federalist #764 Apr 1788, Federalist #7710 Apr 1788, Brutus #165 Jun 1788, Patrick Henry’s Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention #17 Jun 1788, Patrick Henry’s Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention #214 Jun 1788, Federalist #7818 Jun 1788, Federalist #7920 Jun 1788, Melancton Smith’s Speech to the New York Ratifying Convention #121 Jun 1788, Melancton Smith’s Speech to the New York Ratifying Convention #221 Jun 1788, Federalist #8023 Jun 1788, Melancton Smith’s Speech to the New York Ratifying Convention #327 Jun 1788, Melancton Smith’s Speech to the New York Ratifying Convention #528 Jun 1788, Federalist #812 Jul 1788, Federalist #825 Jul 1788, Federalist #8316 Jul 1788, Federalist #8413 Aug 1788, Federalist #85Afterword and Suggested Reading
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posted on
10/27/2013 5:39:43 PM PDT
by
Publius
(Who is John Galt?)
To: 14themunny; 21stCenturion; 300magnum; A Strict Constructionist; abigail2; AdvisorB; Aggie Mama; ...
A golden oldie. Thanks to Loud Mime.
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posted on
10/27/2013 5:41:10 PM PDT
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Publius
(Who is John Galt?)
To: Publius; Loud Mime
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posted on
10/27/2013 5:44:09 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: Publius; Loud Mime
sweet! worthy of another read
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posted on
10/27/2013 6:11:13 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(It's not the penalty, it's the lack of coverage on 1 Jan. Think about it.)
To: Loud Mime
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posted on
10/27/2013 6:13:28 PM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
To: Loud Mime
Good heavens, was it that long ago? Many thanks for the kind words.
A shameless plug - our Atlas Shrugged book is out.
To: Loud Mime
the most formidable obstacle to Our Constitution has been the “progressives” and their puppet “Obama”.
To: Billthedrill
Been away from FR for a while. How sweet to return with this great post in my in box and to learn of the publishing of your A.S.book.It will be on my buy list. I wish you the best of luck with this endeavor.
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posted on
10/27/2013 6:36:33 PM PDT
by
mick
(Central Banker Capitalism is NOT Free Enterprise)
To: Robert Burkholder
I think that Clinton, with his demonic mouthpiece, Carville, set the stage for the smashmouth politics that infects today’s debate. He got nasty, and it’s been nasty ever since.
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posted on
10/27/2013 6:44:29 PM PDT
by
Loud Mime
(Liberal: greedy person who charges their grandchildren for today's party)
To: Loud Mime
Thanks for re-posting this, and for the ping. Despite what I write below, I do appreciate it, and hope to be included in further pings.
What would Hamilton think - and what would he be doing with his time and energy - were he to come back now to see what his early support of the leviathan has wrought?
I have spoken my piece here before as a Southerner, and I have no wish to rehash the meaning of the Civil War for my people, but I am also one who now regards himself quite the Anti-Federalist in general. Hamilton’s whole argument leans solidly in the direction of, and has provided fertile soil for, the current blossoming of the Communist mentality in our land. And today I again read (aloud) his quite eloquent, well-wrought arguments, and they ring again - and even more so - hollow, as I would expect of a lawyer, a statist, and a Northerner.
As one statist told me here long ago: the Federalists won - get over it. I’ve likewise been told that the North won as well - get over it. And now the Communists are winning, and the tyrant Obama won in 2012, - should we get over it?
It is time to dissolve the union that Hamilton pushes here, that led to 600,000 dead and untold suffering in the 1860s, and that is now leading to the globalist yoke coming at us full tilt as I write.
Hamilton, for all his flowery words, was all in for big government. Shame on him.
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posted on
10/27/2013 6:45:35 PM PDT
by
dagogo redux
(A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
To: Amagi
I love that excerpt!
Hamilton was addressing the people who did not want an energetic and powerful national government. They believed that the power would be abused by the national government as it grew and were happy with living in a union of 13 Individual states.
Hamilton wrote to his friend James Duane that the current govt (under the Articles of Confederation) was fit for neither peace nor war and that the States were energized by an uncontrollable sovereignty. I had to smile when I read that letter.
The problem was that the states had power, but the United States had no ability to defend itself from foreign invasion or develop an interstate exchange system (money). If the nation were to survive, it had to have an authority above the State governments.
The last sentence warns us of popular energies in government. Politicians who extoll the “rights of the people,” is where dangerous ambitions gain their foothold; tyranny follows.
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posted on
10/27/2013 7:00:21 PM PDT
by
Loud Mime
(Liberal: greedy person who charges their grandchildren for today's party)
To: Loud Mime
The federal government as formed was not “above” state governments. Their jurisdictions were separate.
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posted on
10/27/2013 7:04:37 PM PDT
by
GeronL
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