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Introduction -- Part I. A debate between cabinet colleagues -- Establishing the public faith: Hamilton's report on public credit -- First signs of division: assumption and the back pay bill -- Establishing energetic government: Hamilton's report on a National Bank -- Defending limited government: Jefferson's critique of the constitutionality of the National Bank -- Defending energetic government: Hamilton on the constitutionality of the National Bank -- Part II. A clash of rival party leaders -- Securing American independence: Hamilton's report on manufactures -- The revolution, alienation of territory, and the Apportionment bill -- Aiming for monarchy: Jefferson's critique of Hamiltonianism -- Tending toward anarchy: Hamilton's critique of Jeffersonianism -- Part III. Founding foreign policy -- Two views of the French Revolution -- Faith among nations I: Jefferson's opinion on the French treaties -- Faith among nations II: Hamilton's opinion on the French treaties -- The constitutional and political theory of Hamilton's Pacificus Papers -- Jefferson, Madison, and Helvidius' critique of Pacificus -- Conclusion

Introduction -- The gospel of life and the culture of death -- Hobbes and the origins of liberal modernity -- Locke's theistic liberalism -- Hume and the morality of sympathy -- The ambiguity of the American founding -- Tocqueville and the moral trajectory of modern democracy -- Conclusion

This paper seeks to illuminate magnanimity by examining Shakespeare's Coriolanus in light of Aristotle's account of greatness of soul in the Nicomachean Ethics. I contend that contemplation of Coriolanus's similarity to Aristotle's magnanimous man allows us to harmonize two apparently discordant elements of the magnanimous man's character: his seriousness about the good, on the one hand, and his apparently status-oriented intolerance of insult, on the other. Nevertheless, Coriolanus falls short of Aristotle's standard; reflection on his defects reveals that genuine magnanimity requires prudence and a philosophic detachment from the city's moral convictions that Shakespeare's hero lacks.