Word: hamiltonian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hamiltonian Tradition...
Down through the years, numerous American presidents of both parties have followed the Hamiltonian tradition of upholding the right of the Executive to use American forces in military operations, even without a Congressional declaration of war. United States ships fought the Barbary pirates informally for years. In 1875 President Polk precipitated a war with Mexico by sending American troops onto disputed soil between Mexico and the Republic of Texas. Once Polk created this "antecedent state of things," in Hamilton's phrase, Congress had no choice but to make a formal declaration of war. Abraham Lincoln, as a first-term Congressman...
...Luckiest Man. It was one of the dramatic moments of congressional history. For 20 years, Arthur Vandenberg had been a Hamiltonian nationalist (he had written three books on his hero). In the years before World War II, his nationalism had led him into isolationism. On that day in January, he stood at a crossroads. The speech in which he announced his change of mind transcended party politics, laid the groundwork for bipartisanship in foreign policy ("unpartisanship" he preferred to call it), and lifted Congressmen up to a new faith. Senator Vandenberg was not the single author of bipartisanship...