THE ORIGINAL FEDERALIST CASE FOR THE CONSTITUTION: THE FEDERALIST PAPERS AND OTHER KEY AMERICAN WRITINGS ON LIBERTY (Special Updated Edition) Updated Amazon Kindle Edition FROM THE FORWARD "In today’s complicated world, it is sometimes hard to know what constitutes being an American. With freedom from attack from all sides and our political discourse resembling at times nothing more dignified than the tawdriest of daytime soap operas, it is sometime too easy to forget what the ideals of liberty as enshrined in our Constitution truly means. This book was created to help us relearn all that is important about America and our Constitution, by reading the very words of those individuals who have collectively made our country great. Inside this volume you will find classic words by the original authors of the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison. You will also find patriotic writings by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and Abraham Lincoln, as well as more modern contributions by Ronald Reagan, and George Bush. This volume also contains all the inaugural addresses of every single American president, as well as the complete Common Sense by Thomas Paine. We hope that this small volume will help us remember and cherish our country and our Constitution for today and forever, so help us God." TABLE OF CONTENTS PART ONE: THE ORIGINAL FEDERALIST CASE FOR THE CONSTITUTION The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison PART TWO: AMERICAN PLEDGES AND ANTHEMS Pledge of Allegiance Francis Bellamy The Star Spangled Banner Franics Scott Key My Country ‘Tis of Thee Samuel Francis Smith PART THREE: AMERICAN FOUNDING FATHERS Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death Patrick Henry The Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson The Constitution of the United States of America Various Writings and Addresses George Washington PART FOUR: AMERICA - A YOUNG NATION Proclamation to the People of South Carolina Andrew Jackson The Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln PART FIVE: THE NEW AND NOBLE QUEST Pearl Harbour Address Franklin D. Roosevelt Civil Rights Address John F. Kennedy Berlin Brandenberg Gate Address John F. Kennedy I Have A Dream Martin Luther King On Tragedy Ronald Reagan Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate Ronald Reagan On Freedom Under Attack George W. Bush Advancing in Another Direction Sarah Palin PART SIX: ADDITIONAL MATERIAL Common Sense Thomas Paine Inaugural Addresses Presidents of the United States of America
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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. American politician Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the treasury of United States from 1789 to 1795, established the national bank and public credit system; a duel with Aaron Burr, his rival, mortally wounded him. One of the Founding Fathers, this economist and philosopher led calls for the convention at Philadelphia and as first Constitutional lawyer co-wrote the Federalist Papers , a primary source for Constitutional interpretation. During the Revolutionary War, he, born in the West Indies but educated in the north, joined the militia, which chose him artillery captain. Hamilton, senior aide-de-camp and confidant to George Washington, general, led three battalions at the siege of Yorktown. People elected him to the Continental congress, but he resigned to practice law and to found in New York. He served in the legislature of New York and later returned to Congress; at the convention in Philadelphia, only he signed the Constitution for New York. Under Washington, then president, he influenced formative government policy widely. Hamilton, an admirer of British, emphasized strong central government and implied powers, under which the new Congress funded and assumed the debts and created an import tariff and whiskey tax. A coalition, the formative Federalist Party, arose around Hamilton, and another coalition, the formative Democratic-Republican Party, arose around Thomas Jefferson and James Madison before 1792; these coalitions differed strongly over domestic fiscal goals and Hamiltonian foreign policy of extensive trade and friendly relations with Britain. Exposed in an affair with Maria Reynolds, Hamilton resigned to return to Constitutional law and advocacy of strong federalism. In 1798, the quasi-war with France led him to argue for an army, which he organized and commanded de facto. Opposition of Hamilton to John Adams, fellow Federalist, contributed to the success of Thomas Jefferson, a Democratic-Republican, in the uniquely deadlocked election of 1800. With defeat of his party, his industrializing ideas lost their former prominence. In 1801, Hamilton founded the Federalist broadsheet New-York Evening Post, now known as the New York Post. His intensity with the vice-president eventually resulted in his death. After the war of 1812, Madison, Albert Gallatin, and other former opponents of the late Hamilton revived some of his federalizing programs, such as infrastructure, tariffs, and a standing Army and Navy. His Federalist and business-oriented economic visions for the country continue to influence party platforms to this day.
