orced to rely upon ever-increasing issues of paper money" (Becker, 1915, p. 260). It is at this point that the intersection of postrevolutionary economics and politics becomes relevant, as well as competing visions of the accomplishments of the revolution.
One vision was avowedly nationalist and was represented mainly by Alexander Hamilton, who laid out a rationale for national Constitutional government in the Federalist Papers based on the problems of state-to-state and sectionalist rivalries (Hamilton, 1961, pp.
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