Abstract
Alexander Hamilton’s underlying arguments in The Federalist Papers and the Pacificus-Helvidius Debates of 1793-1794 expand the power of the presidency and display Hamilton’s desire for a king-like president of the United States, much like Great Britain’s monarch.
Author information: Madeline Clarke is an honors student from Ashland, Missouri, at the University of Missouri-Columbia studying political science and geography with a minor in American Constitutional Democracy. She is currently a Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy Undergraduate Fellow in addition to serving as president of Gamma Theta Upsilon Geography Honor Society, an executive board member of Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society, and an undergraduate research ambassador. After graduating from Mizzou, she intends to pursue a PhD in political science.
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Clarke, Madeline
(2020)
"Alexander Hamilton’s Vision of an American Monarchy,"
Compass: An Undergraduate Journal of American Political Ideas: Vol. 4:
Iss.
2, Article 3.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/compass/vol4/iss2/3