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How did Hamilton interpret the Constitution? And how did he support his argument?

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He maintained that “an interpretation that destroys the very characteristic of the government cannot be just.” Hamilton's broad interpretation of the Constitution was illegitimate because it distorted the government's nature by treating it as a general grant of powers

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