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[A supermajority congress would serve] to embarrass the administration, to destroy the energy of the government, and to substitute the pleasure, caprice, or artifices of an insignificant, turbulent, or corrupt junta, to the regular deliberations and decisions of a respectable majority.
-- Alexander Hamilton (The Federalist No. 22)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlexanderHamilton #Embarrassment #Filibuster #Government #Law

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Driftwood #Florida

@mina

#Economics
#Neoliberalism
#JamesBuchanan

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You are quite right in your assesment, Mina, though you focus on the 1 of 3 #neoliberal
strands that is the pillar of #Reagonomics and #Trumpism, #Buchanam's #VirginiaSchool:

"...unlike even the most property-friendly founders #AlexanderHamilton and #JamesMadison, 👉#Buchanan wanted a private governing elite of corporate power that was wholly released from public accountability.👈" 1)

@number6
@fosstodon.org

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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598606864037745

Hamilton, Ohio: 5/28/2025 #hamilton #architecture #forthamilton #ohio #northwestterritory #alexanderhamilton #mutualufonetwork #photography #midwest #eastcoastkin

Hamilton Ohio: 5/28/2025 #hamilton #architecture #forthamilton #ohio #northwestterritory #alexanderhamilton #mutualufonetwork #photography #midwest #eastcoastkin

Seedings, full playoff schedule for tournament https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/35829/ #1 #alexander #AlexanderHamilton #American #AmericanAutomobileAssociation #Association #Automobile #Baseball #Basketball #Hamilton #High #HighSchoolBaseball #HighSchoolSports #Local #LocalNews #MajorLeagueBaseballPlayoffs #MajorLeagueBaseballPostseason #MLB #MLBPlayoffs #MLBPostseason #Neutral #news #NYSPHSAA #NYSPHSAASection1 #Overall #OverallNeutral #School #Section #Sports #SportsNews

Alexander Hamilton is Rolling
Around in his eternal resting place
His _Post_ uses murder just for earning
Not caring ‘bout citizens: a disgrace
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
#AlexanderHamilton
@nypost
https://nypost.com/2025/04/28/us-news/gunman-who-allegedly-fatally-shot-beloved-nyc-bodega-owner-grandma-turns-himself-in-sources/

The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. Tired at length of anarchy, or want of government, they may take shelter in the arms of monarchy for repose and security.
-- Alexander Hamilton (Correspondence August 1792)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlexanderHamilton #Authoritarianism #Government #Opportunism #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico

@mark @talia_christine

As I've said elsewhere, this is the most judicially activist #SCOTUS in history. It has outright voided part of Art2§4 already, and neutered part of the 14th Amendment.

Everyone has this idea that they are textualists or originalists. But no originalist would have ignored #AlexanderHamilton's Federalist 69.

They're judicial activists, happy to be erroneously viewed by everyone as entirely the opposite.

#USPolitics #ConstitutionalLaw

Packed house for Hamilton 🪶

#portland #oregon #pdx #pnw #photos #photography #mobilephotography #digitalphotography #iphone #shotoniphone #iphoneography #smartphoneography #fediverse #pixelfed #hamilton #alexanderhamilton #history #usa #america #revolutionarywar #linmanuelmiranda #theatre #play #arts #keller #kellerauditorium

A sea of people sitting in auditorium chairs faces frame left toward a theatre stage under tungsten house lights.

A theatre set representing a 1700s American industrial alleyway stands on stage, comprised of wooden steps leading to wooden rafters, brick walls, and numerous wooden boxes/bundles of rope.

Black stage lights sit recessed in a large angular alcove of a white auditorium ceiling.

A large window banner in rust texture and black displays "HAMILTON," with white text over a black lower-thirds portion reading, "Broadway in Portland | MARCH 14 - 23."

I made a rule for myself after reading this: nobody can argue with me over the intent or purpose of the US constitution unless they’ve read this. I’m not interested in modern conjecture - they need to have read the ACTUAL intent, good or bad, behind the document.

But ugh. It’s dry.

Well, I take that back. James Madison is there to make your stomach turn with his justifying the 3/5 of a person rule.

John Jay - who didn’t write many - brought the FIRE with him for his essays, directly addressing “good ideas,” being proposed like making the colonies 13 different countries. Or, more popular, making all 13 into THREE different countries. He basically said they’re all idiots and it would only delay the inevitable war because not everyone would have the same access to the same resources and, when one runs out, the people will want to take it from another country.

No, the worst part was Hamilton.

Look, I know, okay? We were all wooed by the musical. Some of us even followed up that obsession by reading the Chernow book Miranda used as his primary source for the play.

I get it. I’m right there with you. But it’s okay to admit that Hamilton had a lot of great ideas, came up with policies this country still runs on today, and wrote bone-dry essays.

The worst part is that his stuff is the bulk of this book. The play tried to warn me, I guess.

Regardless, today’s political discourse is a lot of “well, I think the founding fathers meant X,” and here you have solid essays about what they REALLY meant and nobody’s reading it because it’s old, dry, and big.

But they should.

At least, they should if they want to argue with me about it.

#books #bookrecommendation #booktok #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booksky #readersofpixelfed #read #readinglog #hamilton #johnjay #jamesmadison #alexanderhamilton #federalistpapers #ushistory #constitution #usa

@MelvilleSpence @swisslet @WiteWulf

They didn't according to the actual text, though, and #AlexanderHamilton was quite forceful about this *not* being the case in Federalist Number 69.

The "good chaps" explanation isn't really right. They very much *did* envisage bad chaps getting into power, and wrote about it. But they didn't expect a situation where the legislature and judiciary would be outright complicit in making the POTUS a king.

#ConstitutionalLaw #USLaw #USPolitics

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
-- Alexander Hamilton

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlexanderHamilton #Effort #Genius

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. Tired at length of anarchy, or want of government, they may take shelter in the arms of monarchy for repose and security.
-- Alexander Hamilton (Correspondence August 1792)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlexanderHamilton #Authoritarianism #Government #Opportunism #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico

ICYMI, Alexander Hamilton made a surprise appearance at SNL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDtSQVj0qzg

#SNL #AlexanderHamilton #LinManuelMiranda #DeclarationOfIndependence #DonaldTrump #JamesAustinJohnson #FoundingFathers #USPolitics

Ron Chernow: Alexander Hamilton

O kalibrze Hamilton świadczy fakt, że chłopak urodzony i wychowany na karaibskiej wyspie Nevis, gdzie na każdego białego kolonistę przypadało czterech czarnych niewolników, a nawet jego skromnie żyjąca rodzina miała kilkoro, był od wczesnej dorosłości zawziętym abolicjonistą, wolnym od rasowych uprzedzeń swojej epoki.

https://wp.me/p3fv0T-h3c #OffTopic #USA #AlexanderHamilton #Hamilton #ksiazka

"I didn't learn anything about Alexander Hamilton in high school!" - LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Robert Lopez (Part 2), Arts Educators Save the World #artsaves #LinManuelMiranda #RobertLopez #AlexanderHamilton #Hamilton

"I'm not putting this accomplishment on the same level as Hamilton, but I went to a wedding last weekend!" - GRIFFIN NEWMAN, All That Jazz with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Blank Check with Griffin & David #BlankCheck #BlankCheckPod #AlexanderHamilton #Hamilton #GriffinNewman

"He's become obsessed with Hamilton!" - CHRIS GETHARD, Garden State Gagootz 9/23: NAME CHANGE, New Jersey Is The World #NewJersey #NewJerseyIsTheWorld #AlexanderHamilton #Hamilton #ChrisGethard

"Hamilton won." - KENNY RYAN, 03.) Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809, [Abridged] Presidential Histories #AbridgedPresidentialHistories #AlexanderHamilton #Hamilton

#AlexanderHamilton

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