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During alexander Hamilton’s time as a secretary of the treasury in 1790, the federal government

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Grew considerably. Hamilton is largely known today (apart from the excellent musical) as the founder of the administrative state. While Washington was out building support for the new country, Hamilton worked to establish much of the original federal bureaucracy, much to the anti-federalists chagrin.

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