Homework Assignment # 15

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Homework Assignment # 15

The national debt was one of the most contentious issues in the politics of the early United States. The debates that swirled around how to pay the national debt helped to provide the rationale for the writing and ratification of the Constitution and contributed to the development of political parties in the 1790s and early 1800s. The debt also remains one of the most difficult subjects to understand. Indeed, few people; perhaps not even Alexander Hamilton; ever fully comprehended all of the intricacies and complications of the debt that had emerged from ...