Compromise of 1790
COMPROMISE OF 1790
COMPROMISE OF 1790, a supposed bargain arranged by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Congressman James Madison, and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson in June 1790. In return for Hamilton's agreement to provide the congressional votes necessary to locate the national capital on the Potomac River, Jefferson and Madison promised to round up sufficient support to assure enactment of Hamilton's plan for assumption of the Revolutionary War debts of the states by the federal government. In order to secure sufficient votes, a further concession by Hamilton involving direct payments to those states with little or no debt proved necessary.
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Jacob E.Cooke/t. m.
See alsoDebts, State ; Hamilton's Economic Policies ; Washington, D.C .