Word: hamiltonian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Burns adds a new "Hamiltonian model" to his previously well-elaborated Madisonian and Jeffersonian models for national government. He says that the Hamiltonian President--exemplified by the two Roosevelts--employs heroic-style leadership, intensely personal organization, and the expedient use of power to govern in the face of a disorganized opposition. Though he has a nasty comment or two for some of the historical bases of the Hamiltonian model, he apparently concludes that it is far superior to the limited-government, limited-President Madisonian view (William Howard Taft) or the strictly-majoritarian, party-rule Jeffersonian view (Woodrow Wilson...
...once potential dangers of a Hamiltonian President to American democracy need no longer be feared, according to Burns, because of the internal checks and balances of the executive branch's decision-making processes and "the convergence of the long ambivalent American ideology in the modern doctrines of freedom and equality." The developments of the twentieth century have made the Presidency not only an attraction for political talent, but also the magnificent defender of personal civil liberties and the only true representative of national popular opinion...
...preparing the 17th volume of Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Editor Boyd reconstructed from scattered documents evidence of Hamiltonian double-dealing so "far indeed beyond the limits of honorable conduct in public office" that Boyd has now rushed out his findings in a separate monograph. He does not remotely suggest that Hamilton was in any sense a British agent. He does allege that Hamilton was so passionately opposed to what seemed to him the anti-British bias of his own Government that he conspired with a British agent to change it, confiding to him the deliberations of the U.S. Cabinet itself...