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Sam Harris | #338 - The Sin of Moral Equivalence
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Tim Ferriss • Ferramentas dos Titãs (Portuguese Edition)
In his report, Hamilton championed several controversial measures. Some original holders of the wartime promissory notes, including many Continental Army veterans, had sold them after the war at a tiny fraction of their face value, believing that they would never be repaid in full. Hamilton planned to redeem them at face value and wanted current ho
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He did this by activating three still amorphous clauses—the necessary-and-proper clause, the general-welfare clause, and the commerce clause—making them the basis for government activism in economics.
Ron Chernow • Alexander Hamilton
One of Hamilton’s first decisions as secretary of the Treasury was to ask Congress to establish America’s creditworthiness in the eyes of American and foreign creditors by taking over the debt of the states.
Michael Lind • Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States
Hamilton, after having demonstrated the utility of a power which might prevent, or which might at least impede, the promulgation of bad laws, adds: "It might perhaps be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones, and may be used to the one purpose as well as to the other.