Editing Report on Manufactures (section)

{{short description|1791 report on economic policy by U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton}}
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[[Image:Alexander Hamilton A17950.jpg|thumb|right|[[Portrait]] of [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[John Trumbull]], 1792]]

In [[United States history]], the '''Report on the Subject of Manufactures''', generally referred to by its shortened title '''Report on Manufactures''', is the third of [[Hamiltonian economic program|four major reports]], and ''[[Masterpiece|magnum opus]]'', of [[Founding Fathers of the United States|American Founding Father]] and first [[U.S. Treasury Secretary]] [[Alexander Hamilton]]. It was presented to the [[US Congress|Congress]] on December 5, 1791. In the report, Hamilton argued for [[industrial policy]] to support modern [[manufacturing]] technologies in the United States.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sylla |first=Richard |date=2024 |title=Alexander Hamilton's Report on Manufactures and Industrial Policy |url=https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.38.4.111 |journal=Journal of Economic Perspectives |language=en |volume=38 |issue=4 |pages=111–130 |doi=10.1257/jep.38.4.111 |issn=0895-3309|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

It laid forth economic principles rooted in both the [[mercantilist]] system of [[Elizabeth I]]'s [[Kingdom of England|England]] and the practices of [[Jean-Baptiste Colbert]] of [[Kingdom of France|France]]. The main ideas of the Report would later be incorporated into the "[[American System (economic plan)|American System]]" program by US Senator [[Henry Clay]] of [[Kentucky]] and his [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig Party]]. [[Abraham Lincoln]], who called himself a "Henry Clay tariff Whig" during his early years, would later make the principles cornerstones, together with his opposition to the institution and the expansion of [[slavery]], of the fledgling [[US Republican Party|Republican Party]].

Hamilton's ideas would form the basis for the [[American School (economics)|American School of economics]].