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The West Indies, the Revolution, and the Confederation, 1769-1786 | |
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To Edward Stevens, November 11, 1769: "My Ambition Is Prevalent" | |
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To Nicholas Cruger, February 24, 1772: Counting-House Business | |
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To The Royal Danish American Gazette, September 6, 1772: Account of a Hurricane | |
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A Full Vindication of the Measures of the Congress, December 15, 1774 | |
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To John Jay, November 26, 1775: The Danger of Trusting in Virtue | |
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To Gouverneur Morris, May 19, 1777: The New York Constitution | |
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To George Clinton, February 13, 1778: The Trouble with Congress | |
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To Elias Boudinot, July 5, 1778: The Battle of Monmouth | |
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To John Jay, March 14, 1779: Enlisting Slaves as Soldiers | |
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To John Laurens, c. April 1779: Hope for a Wife | |
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To William Gordon, September 5, 1779: An Insult to Honor | |
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To John Laurens, January 8, 1780: "I Am Not Fit for This Terrestreal Country" | |
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To Elizabeth Schuyler, August 1780: "Examine Well Your Heart" | |
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To James Duane, September 3, 1780: "The Defects of Our Present System" | |
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To Elizabeth Schuyler, September 3, 1780: Opinions Regarding the Sexes | |
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To Elizabeth Schuyler, September 25, 1780: The Plight of Mrs. Arnold | |
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To Elizabeth Schuyler, October 2, 1780: The Fate of Major Andre | |
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To Margarita Schuyler, January 21, 1781: Advice About Marriage | |
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To Philip Schuyler, February 18, 1781: A Break with Washington | |
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To James McHenry, February 18, 1781: Washington Will Repent His Ill-Humour | |
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The Continentalist No. I, July 12, 1781 | |
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The Continentalist No. III, August 9, 1781 | |
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The Continentalist No. IV, August 30, 1781 | |
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The Continentalist No. VI, July 4, 1782 | |
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To Richard Kidder Meade, August 27, 1782: The Birth of a Son | |
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Remarks in Congress on Raising Funds, January 27, 1783 | |
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Remarks in Congress on Collecting Funds, January 28, 1783 | |
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To George Washington, February 13, 1783: The Prospect of a Mutiny | |
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To George Washington, March 17, 1783: "Contending for a Shadow" | |
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A Letter from Phocion to the Considerate Citizens of New-York on the Politics of the Day, January 1784 | |
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To James Hamilton, June 22, 1785: "I Feel All the Sentiment of a Brother" | |
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Address of the Annapolis Convention, September 14, 1786 | |
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Framing and Ratifying the Constitution, 1787-1789 | |
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Plan of Government, c. June 18, 1787 | |
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Speech in the Constitutional Convention on a Plan of Government, June 18, 1787 | |
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To George Washington, July 3, 1787: "The Critical Opportunity" | |
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Conjectures About the New Constitution, c. late September 1787 | |
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The Federalist No. 1, October 27, 1787 | |
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The Federalist No. 6, November 14, 1787 | |
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The Federalist No. 7, November 17, 1787 | |
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The Federalist No. 8, November 20, 1787 | |
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The Federalist No. 9, November 21, 1787 | |
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The Federalist No. 11, November 24, 1787 | |
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The Federalist No. 12, November 27, 1787 | |
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The Federalist No. 13, November 28, 1787 | |
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The Federalist No. 15, December 1, 1787 | |
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The Federalist No. 16, December 4, 1787 | |
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The Federalist No. 17, December 5, 1787 | |
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The Federalist No. 21, December 12, 1787 | |
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The Federalist No. 22, December 14, 1787 | |
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The Federalist No. 23, December 18, 1787 | |
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The Federalist No. 24, December 19, 1787 | |
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The Federalist No. 25, December 21, 1787 | |
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The Federalist No. 26, December 22, 1787 | |
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The Federalist No. 27, December 25, 1787 | |
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The Federalist No. 28, December 26, 1787 | |
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The Federalist No. 29, January 9, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 30, December 28, 1787 | |
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The Federalist No. 31, January 1, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 32, January 2, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 33, January 2, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 34, January 5, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 35, January 5, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 36, January 8, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 59, February 22, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 60, February 23, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 61, February 26, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 65, March 7, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 66, March 8, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 67, March 11, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 68, March 12, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 69, March 14, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 70, March 15, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 71, March 18, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 72, March 19, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 73, March 21, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 74, March 25, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 75, March 26, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 76, April 1, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 77, April 2, 1788 | |
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To James Madison, May 19, 1788: Coordinating a Campaign | |
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The Federalist No. 78, May 28, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 79, May 28, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 80, May 28, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 81, May 28, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 82, May 28, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 83, May 28, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 84, May 28, 1788 | |
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The Federalist No. 85, May 28, 1788 | |
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To James Madison, June 8, 1788: Fears of Civil War | |
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Speech in the New York Ratifying Convention on Representation, June 21, 1788 | |
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Speech in the New York Ratifying Convention on Interests and Corruption, June 21, 1788 | |
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Speech in the New York Ratifying Convention on the Distribution of Powers, June 27, 1788 | |
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To George Washington, September 1788: Convincing Washington To Serve | |
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To James Wilson, January 25, 1789: Withholding Votes from Adams | |
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To George Washington, May 5, 1789: Presidential Etiquette | |
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Secretary of the Treasury, 1789-1795 | |
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To Lafayette, October 6, 1789: "I Hazard Much" | |
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Memorandum by George Beckwith on a Conversation with Hamilton, October 1789 | |
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To Henry Lee, December 1, 1789: "Suspicion Is Ever Eagle Eyed" | |
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Report on the Public Credit, January 9, 1790 | |
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Report on a National Bank, December 13, 1790 | |
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Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank, February 23, 1791 | |
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Report on the Subject of Manufactures, December 5, 1791 | |
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To Philip A. Hamilton, December 5, 1791: "A Promise Must Never Be Broken" | |
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To Edward Carrington, May 26, 1792: "A Faction Decidedly Hostile to Me" | |
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To George Washington, July 30, 1792: The Necessity of Reelection | |
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An American No. I, August 4, 1792 | |
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To George Washington, August 18, 1792: Political and Personal Defense | |
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To John Adams, September 9, 1792: Reprimanding Adams | |
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To George Washington, September 9, 1792: Responding to a Plea for Peace | |
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Amicus, September 11, 1792 | |
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To an Unknown Correspondent, September 26, 1792: An Embryo-Cesar | |
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Draft of a Defense of the Neutrality Proclamation, c. May 1793 | |
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Pacificus No. I, June 29, 1793 | |
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To Andrew G. Fraunces, October 1, 1793: "Contemptible As You Are" | |
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To Angelica Hamilton, c. November 1793: Advice to a Daughter | |
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To George Washington, April 14, 1794: Crisis with Britain | |
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To George Washington, August 2, 1794: The Whiskey Rebellion | |
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Tully No. I, August 23, 1794 | |
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Tully No. III, August 28, 1794 | |
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To Angelica Church, October 23, 1794: "Wicked Insurgents of the West" | |
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To Angelica Church, December 8, 1794: "A Politician, and Good for Nothing" | |
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Memorandum on the French Revolution, 1794 | |
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To George Washington, February 3, 1795: Resigning from Office | |
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Federalist Leader and Attorney, 1795-1804 | |
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To Rufus King, February 21, 1795: A Threat to the Public Credit | |
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To Robert Troup, April 13, 1795: "Public Fools" | |
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The Defence No. I, July 22, 1795 | |
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Memorandum on the Design for a Seal of the United States, c. May 1796 | |
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To George Washington, July 30, 1796: A Draft of the Farewell Address | |
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To William Loughton Smith, April 10, 1797: Crisis with France | |
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To William Hamilton, May 2, 1797: Introduction to an Uncle | |
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The "Reynolds Pamphlet," August 25, 1797 | |
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To George Washington, May 19, 1798: An Appeal to Washington | |
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To Elizabeth Hamilton, November 1798: "My Good Genius" | |
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To Theodore Sedgwick, February 2, 1799: The Problem of Virginia | |
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To James McHenry, March 18, 1799: Displaying Strength "Like a Hercules" | |
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Memorandum on Measures for Strengthening the Government, c. 1799 | |
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To Josiah Ogden Hoffman, November 6, 1799: "The Force of the Laws Must Be Tried" | |
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To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, December 22, 1799: The Death of Washington | |
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To Martha Washington, January 12, 1800: "So Heart-Rending an Affliction" | |
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To John Jay, May 7, 1800: An Electoral Stratagem | |
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To Theodore Sedgwick, May 10, 1800: Withdrawing Support from Adams | |
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To Charles Carroll of Carrollton, July 1, 1800: Supporting Pinckney | |
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To John Adams, August 1, 1800: Response to an Accusation | |
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To Oliver Wolcott Jr., August 3, 1800: "I Am in a Very Belligerent Humour" | |
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To William Jackson, August 26, 1800: "The Most Humiliating Criticism" | |
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Rules for Philip Hamilton, 1800 | |
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To John Adams, October 1, 1800: "A Base Wicked and Cruel Calumny" | |
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Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq. President of the United States, October 24, 1800 | |
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To Gouverneur Morris, December 26, 1800: Jefferson Over Burr | |
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To John Rutledge Jr., January 4, 1801: Anxiety About the Election | |
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To James A. Bayard, January 16, 1801: Burr Has "No Fixed Theory" | |
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Proposal for the New York Legislature for Amending the Constitution, January 1802 | |
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Remarks on the Repeal of the Judiciary Act, February 11, 1802 | |
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To Gouverneur Morris, February 29, 1802: "Mine Is an Odd Destiny" | |
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To Benjamin Rush, March 29, 1802: The Death of Philip Hamilton | |
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To James A. Bayard, April 1802: The Christian Constitutional Society | |
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To Rufus King, June 3, 1802: "A Most Visionary Theory Presides" | |
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To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, December 29, 1802: "Refuge of a Disappointed Politician" | |
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To Elizabeth Hamilton, March 17, 1803: "A World Full of Evil" | |
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Purchase of Louisiana, July 5, 1803 | |
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To Timothy Pickering, September 16, 1803: Explaining a Plan of Government | |
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Speech to a Federalist Meeting in Albany, February 10, 1804 | |
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Propositions on the Law of Libel, February 15, 1804 | |
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From Aaron Burr, June 18, 1804: Origins of a Dispute | |
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To Aaron Burr, June 20, 1804: Declining to Avow or Disavow | |
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From Aaron Burr, June 21, 1804: New Reasons for a Definite Reply | |
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To Aaron Burr, June 22, 1804: "Expressions Indecorous and Improper" | |
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From Aaron Burr, June 22, 1804: "The Course I Am About to Pursue" | |
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Response to a Letter from William P. Van Ness, June 28, 1804 | |
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Statement Regarding Financial Situation, July 1, 1804 | |
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To Elizabeth Hamilton, July 4, 1804: "Fly to the Bosom of Your God" | |
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Statement Regarding the Duel with Burr, c. July 10, 1804 | |
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To Theodore Sedgwick, July 10, 1804: "Our Real Disease; Which Is Democracy" | |
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To Elizabeth Hamilton, July 10, 1804: An Obligation Owed | |
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Statements on the Hamilton-Burr Duel | |
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Joint Statement by William P. Van Ness and Nathaniel Pendleton, July 17, 1804 | |
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Statement by Nathaniel Pendleton, July 19, 1804 | |
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Statement by William P. Van Ness, July 21, 1804 | |
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Chronology | |
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Note on the Texts | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |