Question

1.What conclution does Hamilton draw about the revlationshlp between the states and the army?

2.According to Hamilton, should the power of the purse be controlled by the states or Congress? Explain.

The confederation gives the states individually too much influence in the affairs ofthe army. They should have nothing to do with it. The entire formation and disposal of our military forces ought to belong to Congress. It is an essential cement of the union, and it ought to be the policy of Congress to destroy all ideas of state attachments In the army and make it look up wholly to them The confederation too gives the power of the purse too entirely to the state legislatures. It should provide perpetual funds in the disposal of Congress—by a land tax, poll tax, or the like. All imposts upon commerce ought to be lald by Congress and appropriated to their use, for without certain revenues a government can have no power. That power which holds the purse strings absolutely must rule.

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Birth: 11 January 1757, on Nevis, British West Indies

Death: 12 July 1804, at New York City

Interment: Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery, New York City

Alexander Hamilton

Oil, by John Trumbull (1792); National Gallery of Art.