Meanings
- uncountableThe economic policy attributed to Alexander Hamilton.
As days passed and Chief Justice Lewis said nothing about it, Kent and his convert to Hamiltonism, Judge Smith Thompson, grew uneasy.
2000, Thomas Fleming, Duel2 more examples
1954, L. M. Hacker, “The Anticapitalist Bias of American Historians,” in Capitalism and the Historians, Friedrich A Hayek ed. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0226320723&id=Z80ZQbpaD8UC&pg=RA1-PA84&lpg=RA1-PA84&sig=gZMnjufIPytwIAUuEn2Nmf8z7TU Politically, to these leveling historians, Hamiltonism was evil; and by the same token a moral and not an economic judgment is passed on his extraordinary achievements.
Political reaction to the message varied. Purist Jeffersonians attacked it as a reversion to Hamiltonism and as moving in a direction of enhanced federal power.
2004, Theodore Sky, To Provide for the General Welfare,
Origin
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