Last Big Push
Before sailing to New York, Alexander Hamilton was working for his late mother's landlord, trading rum and THIS cash crop, the demand for which spurred the transatlantic slave trade beginning in the 1500s.
What is sugarcane?
Hamilton redesigned the nation's financial system and initiated the process of forming a national bank, an institution later upheld in THIS SCOTUS case in 1819 as permissible under the "necessary and proper" clause of the Constitution, also known as the elastic clause
What is McCulloch v Maryland?
I once suggested that our neighbor Ms. Deull refer to her classroom rules as the Ten Deull Commandments, but then we realized that in a public school this might be interpreted as a violation of THIS clause of the First Amendment.
What is the Establishment Clause?
"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition."
What is Fed 51?
There were "new ideas in the air" throughout the eighteenth century due to THIS philosophical movement, which emphasized human reason and individual rights.
What is the Enlightenment?
In one of Hamilton's opening songs, set in 1776, John Laurens tells Aaron Burr that "the revolution's imminent" and asks, "what do you stall for?" This is misleading, since the Revolution had already started the year before with the "shot heard round the world" at Lexington and THIS city.
What is Concord?
The musical Hamilton highlights the entrepreneurial spirit of its protagonist, who "rises above his station" through hard work and ingenuity, a trait that is celebrated in American political culture. In the 1830s, THIS French author commented on the restless striving for social mobility that he observed in the American populace.
Who is Alexis de Tocqueville?
Hamilton describes his "power of speech" as "unimpeachable," which means that his power of speech will never be impeached by THIS chamber of Congress and then convicted by THIS chamber of Congress.
What is the House and the Senate, respectively.
"A republic is preferable to a democracy because it extends the influence of the people."
What is Fed 10?
The Schuyler sisters quote THIS document by THIS author when they sing that "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal."
What is the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson?
By 14, they placed Hamilton in charge of a trading charter. THIS joint-stock company was granted a charter by King James in 1606 and sent a ship to the Chesapeake Bay to found a colony the very next year.
What is the Virginia Company?
John Laurens is full of revolutionary fervor but warns that "we'll never be truly free until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me," a dream that did not even BEGIN to be realized until THIS amendment was ratified in 1865.
What is the 13th?
When he first moves to New York, Hamilton "walks these streets famished" and "doesn't have a gun to brandish." If he DID have a gun to brandish, he would benefit from THIS 2010 Supreme Court case, which interpreted the 2nd Amendment to mean that individuals have a right to bear arms and incorporated that right against the states.
What is McDonald v. Chicago?
"This independence of the judges is equally requisite to guard the Constitution and the rights of individuals from the effects of those ill humors."
What is Fed 78?
Similarly to the duty to rebel against an unjust government that Hamilton and his friends discuss, THIS AP Gov foundational document proclaimed that citizens have a duty to disobey unjust laws.
What is Letter from Birmingham Jail?
Some men say that Angelica is "intense or insane" because she reads THIS book by THIS author, who argued that Britain was holding the colonists back economically and in the realm of foreign relations.
What is Common Sense by Thomas Paine?
The Marquis de Lafayette dreams "of life without the monarchy." THIS is the term for a government in which the people exercise their will through their representatives.
What is a republic?
In the first murder trial of their brand new nation, Hamilton and Burr represent their client Levi Weeks. If Weeks had been unable to afford to pay them for their services, he would have been out of luck, because the right to a public defender would not be incorporated against the states until THIS Supreme Court case.
What is Gideoon v. Wainwright?
"A free country cannot exist over a country of such immense extent..."
What is Brutus 1?
The loyalist commentator Samuel Seabury tells colonists to "heed not the rabble who scream revolution, they have not your interests at heart. He probably didn't believe in THIS founding principle of American government, which holds that the right to rule is derived from the people themselves.
What is popular sovereignty?
Eliza Hamilton is devoted to revolutionary ideals but pursues them primarily through her role as a caregiver and teacher to her children. This uniquely American feminine ideal is known by THIS name.
What is Republican Motherhood?
Hamilton describes his friends as "a bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists," meaning that they would probably have gotten along well with THIS famous nineteenth-century Black orator who asked his white audience, "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?"
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Aaron Burr criticizes Hamilton for always saying what he believes, which is especially dangerous in times of war and ideological conflict. In THIS Supreme Court case in 1919, SCOTUS held that speech can be restricted if it presents a "clear and present danger."
What is Schenck v. US?
"Energy in the executive is the leading character in the definition of a good government."
What is Fed 70?
Given King George's glib threat to "kill your friends and family to remind you of his love," we shouldn't that people in the eighteenth century were increasingly disenchanted with THIS feudal idea, which held that monarchs were given their power by God himself.
What is the divine right of kings?