Hamilton believed that the federal government had powers to do whatever was "necessary and proper" in exercising leadership beyond its specifically enumerated powers.
A key example was Hamilton's argument for the creation of a national bank, which was not specifically stipulated by the Constitution. Hamilton's argument was based on the "necessary and proper" clause of Article I, Section 8, of the United States Constitution. After enumerating a number of the powers of Congress, including borrowing money, coining money, regulating commerce, etc, Section 8 of Article I closes with by saying Congress shall have power "to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof."
Hamilton favored a loose interpretation of the Constitution -- in other words, that the Constitution allows for anything that is not strictly forbidden in what it has expressly stated. A national bank was not strictly listed as something Congress could establish, but there was nothing in the Constitution to prohibit it. And the "necessary and proper" clause gave leeway to create it.
Overall, Hamilton favored a stronger federal government than did some of his peers among the founding fathers.
The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution was one of the three improvements made to the United States Constitution after the Civil War, it was known also as the Civil War Amendment. The motivation of the 15th Amendment was to guarantee that states or communities were not invalidating men the right to vote, simply, because of their race.
After the Civil War, America needed to be reconstructed socially an structurally. During the reconstruction of the South, some Sothern states still fond ways to discriminate former slaves, and restrict voting to white men only. These restrictions on voting were revoked by the 15th Amendment, which President Jackson tried to reject with no success. Many states tried to deprive the black voters by creating preferential laws. One of such laws was the "Grandfather Clause", which stated that those who had the benefit or the right to vote prior to 1866 or 1867, or their lineal descendants, would be free from educational, property or tax requisites in order to vote.
As the last of the Civil War Amendments the 15th Amendment permit former slaves to congregate and select people to represent them. This amendment is important as an equitable principle, in deciding who has the right to vote; it acts as a significant event in the correction of the United States Constitution tp guarantee civil rights in general and voting rights, specially for its multiple racial population.
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C. They were laws that segregated blacks and whites in the south
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In 1781, James Madison (1751–1836) asked Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) for his account of those tumultuous pivotal days in which the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation were drafted. Recognizing the importance of the process for the Revolution and for posterity, Thomas Jefferson prepared his notes of the proceedings in Congress, June 7–August 1, 1776. On this page, Jefferson’s notes reflect his interest in Article XVII, about representation in Congress.
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