A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.
— Alexander Hamilton Early Modern

Founding Father, Treasury

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Federalist No. 1

Date / Period

1787

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Controversial

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https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-04-02-0001

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