How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America

Brion McClanahan

• Publisher: Regnery History
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781621576358
• eBook ISBN: 9781621576549
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Biographies
• Index: Politics & International Relations

He is the star of a hit Broadway musical, the face on the ten dollar bill, and a central figure among the founding fathers. But do you really know Alexander Hamilton?Rather than lionize Hamilton, Americans should carefully consider his most significant and ultimately detrimental contribution to modern society: the shredding of the United States Constitution.Connecting the dots between Hamilton's invention of implied powers in 1791 to transgender bathrooms and same-sex marriage two centuries later, Brion McClanahan shows the origins of our modern federal leviathan.

NOTES

INTRODUCTION

1. Liam Deacon, “Anti-Brexit Bob Geldof: I Led the Booing of Mike Pence at Hamilton,” December 3, 2016, Breitbart.com, http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/12/03/anti-brexit-bob-geldof-led-booing-mike-pence-hamilton/.

2. Christopher Mele and Patrick Healy, “‘Hamilton’ Had Some Unscripted Lines for Pence. Trump Wasn’t Happy,” November 19, 2016, New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/us/mike-pence-hamilton.html.

3. Alissa Wilkinson, “The Hamilton Mixtape feels like the original album that Hamilton was always covering,” December 8, 2016, Vox.com, http://www.vox.com/culture/2016/12/6/13843722/hamilton-mixtape-lin-manuel-miranda.

4. Brion McClanahan, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers (Washington DC: Regnery, 2009).

5. National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 567 U.S. ___ (2012), 183 L. Ed. 2d 450, 132 S.Ct. 2566.

CHAPTER 1: HAMILTON VS. HAMILTON

1. Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Elliot (Washington, DC: Regnery, 1953); Forrest McDonald, Alexander Hamilton: A Biography (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1979).

2. George Will, Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy (New York: The Free Press, 1992), 167.

3. David Brooks and William Kristol, “What Ails Conservatism?” Wall Street Journal, September 15, 1997.

4. Richard Brookhiser, Alexander Hamilton: American (New York: Free Press, 1999).

5. Michael Lind, Hamilton’s Republic: Readings in the American Democratic Nationalist Tradition (New York: Free Press, 1997).

6. Stephen Knott, Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2002).

7. “Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 16 January 1811,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified July 12, 2016, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-03-02-0231. Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 3, 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, 304–308.

CHAPTER 2: FROM PHILADELPHIA TO POUGHKEEPSIE

1. John P. Kaminski, et al., eds., The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution (Madison, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1981-2016), XIII: 476.

2. Jonathan Elliot, ed., The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution as Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787 (New York: Burt Franklin Reprints, 1974), II: 224, 334, 250.

3. Ibid., V: 193.

4. Forrest McDonald, Alexander Hamilton: A Biography (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1982), 105; Max Farrand, ed., The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966), I: 363.

5. Elliot, The Debates in the Several State Conventions, V: 199-206.

6. Kaminski et al. eds., The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, XV: 217, 222.

7. Elliot, The Debates in the Several State Conventions, II: 353, 356.

8. Ibid., 362, 370–71.

9. Kaminski, The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, XXII: 1998–2002.

10. Ibid., 2004-2013.

11. Ibid., 2011.

12. Farrand, The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, I: 297–98.

CHAPTER 3: ASSUMPTION AND IMPLIED POWERS

1. Annals of Congress, 1st Congress, 1st Session, 393–94.

2. Ibid., 408.

3. Ibid., 616.

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid., 631.

6. Lance Banning, ed., Liberty and Order: The First American Party Struggle (Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2004), 76...

Table of contents

• COVER
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT
• DEDICATION
• CONTENTS
• FOREWORD
• INTRODUCTION
• 01. HAMILTON VS. HAMILTON
• 02. FROM PHILADELPHIA TO POUGHKEEPSIE
• 03. ASSUMPTION AND IMPLIED POWERS
• 04. THE BANK
• 05. THE REBELLION
• 06. THE PROCLAMATION
• 07. MARSHALL VS. MARSHALL
• 08. JUDICIAL REVIEW AND CONTRACTS
• 09. MARSHALL CODIFIES IMPLIED POWERS
• 10. THE MARSHALL COURT AND THE STATES
• 11. JOSEPH STORY AND THE COMMENTARIES
• 12. HUGO BLACK AND INCORPORATION
• 13. THINK LOCALLY, ACT LOCALLY
• NOTES
• INDEX