Word: hamilton
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Next week Plummer Hamilton, 40, a computer consultant from New Rochelle, N.Y., is scheduled to go on trial in Cook County (Ill.) circuit court on disorderly conduct charges for allegedly using profane language to stir up passengers aboard a delayed Chicago-to-Newark flight on Continental. At the time he spoke up, passengers had spent an hour aboard the waiting plane, which suffered from faulty air conditioning. After four police officers hauled Hamilton off the plane in handcuffs, some 45 fellow passengers signed a petition calling the airline's action "unjust, outrageous and barbaric...
Viewers who have followed the Iranscam hearings have come to know not just Ollie and the lawyers but also a gallery of fascinating congressional characters who often were mere names before -- Inouye, Hamilton, Rudman, Mitchell, Boren, Hyde, Cohen, Hatch. Their questions, their demeanor and their quirks could be watched.They are now more recognizable than most of the "Seven Dwarfs" seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, who have largely been subjected to television's usual voice-over, snippety sound-bite techniques on the evening news. Of course, networks defend their sound bites by protesting how hard it is to condense...
Clay Jenkinson, a humanities scholar, has teamed up with Melvin Kahn, a professor of political science at Wichita State University, to play Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, Founding Fathers with very different ideas about government. Touring the Midwest, the actors have discovered that while most of their audiences sympathize with the populist views of Jefferson, they actually vote for Hamilton, whose vision of a strong central government they find more realistic. "I've come to the conclusion that we live in a Hamiltonian nation with a Jeffersonian rhetoric," says Jenkinson ruefully...
...authentic and authoritative version of what the Constitution is about and how it got that way, it is hard to beat two of the original works written on the subject: James Madison's Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 and The Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton, Madison and John Jay. Both are currently in print and widely available in paperback editions. Separately and together they tell the intertwined story of Constitution and framers with the clear voice of the times, not the way present-day passions may choose to perceive...
...Federalist, a series of essays churned out for New York newspapers under the group anonym "Publius," was frankly designed as propaganda and used to persuade doubters in state conventions to ratify the nascent Constitution. The pieces appeared at the rate of two to four a week. Hamilton, who hatched the idea, dashed off "Federalist No. 1" in October 1787 aboard a sloop on the Hudson and cranked out the 85th and last in May 1788, after Jay had fallen too sick to write and Madison had decamped for Virginia to fight the ratifying battle there. "Whilst the printer was putting...