(1790-1820) Alexander Hamilton - Edubirdie

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Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790-1820 "Should the majority govern or be governed?" asked Alexander Hamilton. Like he did here, Alexander Hamilton regularly penned argumentative pieces under pen names like "Tully." Hamilton criticizes majority rule and the whiskey rebels in this 1794 article. It has been noted that, among other things, the methods most likely to be used to turn the uprising in the western nation against the government would be well timed 'to divert your attention from the fundamental subject to be decided. Now let's examine this question. It is quite simply this: will the majority rule or rule itself? Will the country rule itself or be ruled? Will the will of a group or the general win out? Is there going to be a government or not? This same sentence, "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and Excises, to pay the debts, and to provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States," is found in the Constitution you have decreed for yourselves and your descendants. Then, you have declared and determined that your Representatives in Congress should have the authority to lay excises by a solemn and deliberate act that is the most significant and holy that a nation can accomplish. Since then, you have taken no action to revoke or weaken that decree. However, the four western counties of Pennsylvania promise to reject and overturn your orders, since you have said that "the Congress shall have the power to lay excises." "The Congress shall not have this power," they declare. Nothing is a more certain or terrifying path to authoritarianism than the path that starts with anarchy. -Alexander Hamilton, "Tully No. II," August 26, 1794, American Daily Advertiser Philadelphia

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