On March 14, 1776, Alexander Hamilton receives his commission as Captain of a New York Artillery Company. Alexander Hamilton established himself as a military leader and in March of 1777, General George Washington promoted Captain Hamilton to Lieutenant Colonel and his personal aide.
“Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.”
-Alexander Hamilton
“If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.”
-Alexander Hamilton
“It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.”
-Alexander Hamilton
“There is no position which depends on clearer principles, than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.”
-Alexander Hamilton
