 | Henry L. Bretton - 1980 - 418 páginas
...respect to the plan to establish a Bank of the United States (established in 1791), Hamilton had written that "such a bank is not a mere matter of private...political machine of the greatest importance to the States." In Arthur M. Schlesinger's opinion, the Second Bank of the United States, which became known... | |
 | Harvey Flaumenhaft - 1992 - 314 páginas
...influence the appointment of directors by the votes of their proxies. Such a bank is to be considered not a mere matter of private property, but a political machine of the greatest importance to the state. The bank's constitution needs a principle of rotation in the directing officers. In the constitution... | |
 | Richard H. Timberlake - 1993 - 502 páginas
...Hamilton took his cue from Smith: "It is to be considered that such a bank," he wrote in his report, "is not a mere matter of private property, but a political machine of greatest importance to the State." A public bank would give "facility to the Government in obtaining... | |
 | H. W. Brands, Professor of History H W Brands - 2006 - 239 páginas
...States could do the same. "Such a Bank," he wrote in a message delivered to Congress in December 1790, "is not a mere matter of private property, but a political...machine of the greatest importance to the State." Hamilton's bank would receive taxes, disburse appropriations, manage the national debt, and issue notes... | |
 | ...Hamilton, great originator of such a bank, told the honest truth, as to what it intended to be : " It is to be considered that such a bank is not a i matter of private property, but a political machine, of the greatest >rtance to the State." Congress... | |
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