1) (Page 22): How did Hamilton and Jefferson differ in their interpretations of the Constitution? Hamilton used the Constitutions elastic clause to make a national bank while Thomas Jefferson did not believe it was right to create a national bank because he believed it was unconstitutional.…
Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson were two great leaders who had differing opinions on numerous issues. Alexander Hamilton interpreted the constitution loosely and was for a strong government while Thomas Jefferson strictly interpreted the constitution and was for states rights. Federalist ideals represented Hamilton's opinions while Jefferson’s opposing views were found in the DemocraticRepublicans. Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson had contrasting views on key issues. A key issue debated on by Jefferson and Hamilton was the constitutionality of a Bank of the United States. Jefferson believed the bank was unconstitutional due to his strict interpretation of the Constitution.(Doc A) Although he believed a bank was overstepping the constitutional boundaries and advocated against it, Jefferson did not destroy it during his presidency. Hamilton thought a Bank of the United States was constitutional due to his loose interpretation of the Constitution due to the Necessary and Proper Clause.(Doc B) Jefferson disagreed with Hamilton stating that all powers not declared in the constitution were delegated to the states. The Alien and Sedition Acts caused quarrel between Hamilton and Jefferson. Enacted by the Federalists, the Alien Act arrested and deported illegal aliens while the Sedition Act limited criticism of the government. (Doc F) The acts sparked the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions which, penned by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, were responses to the Alien and Sedition Acts declaring them…
Hamilton believed that for the economy to grow, economic development had to be created and managed. He wanted to collect resources located all around North America and sell them to make a profit. Moving all these resources around would require management at a national level. Both Madison and Jefferson disagreed with Hamilton’s idea. Doing this would cost money and the country would be losing money instead of making a profit. They believed that the economy should recover and grow on its own.…
To make a strong manufacturing giant, he needed a strong government that could build infrastructure and protect patents. He was supporting a strong national government since he wrote so many of the Federalist Papers. Hamilton also envisioned an America that was governed primarily by the elite. His party, the Federalist Party would be the one of the rich, the able and well-born. Hamilton wanted affiliations with Great Britain due to his passion for elitism and trade. On the other hand, Jefferson wanted an American that was predominantly agrarian, with most people being small scale subsistence level farmers. Maybe they would produce a little surplus for local markets but not for international consumers. There would be no international trade and he didn’t want manufacturing either. This small scale local economy could best be served by a small scale local government. Jefferson was a big fan of the French since they fought with us in the war…
Two great leaders of society were Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. However, their governmental and public policy views were completely different. Hamilton believed in strong, big, federal government. While, Jefferson believed in spreading power over a nation amongst many people rather than just an elite few.…
Most clear thinking Americans could probably tell you at least the rudimentary facts of who Thomas Jefferson was. Far fewer would likely have a definite idea of who Alexander Hamilton was and what his contributions as a Founding Father were. Yet his conception of an American government was just as important as that of Jefferson. Both founders foresaw the new nation as a great future power, and both had very different maps of how to get it there.…
In 1789, a passionate disagreement broke out between Jefferson and Hamilton over the French Revolution. Jefferson and his Republican supporters were in favor of joining the revolutionaries, while Hamilton and the Federalists called for a neutral stance in relation to the fighting. This lead to the bisection of a previously cooperative government into two warring parties.…
The more Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson disagreed the further they grew apart causing the people of the country to have to choose sides as the factions began to…
However Jefferson had supported the average man unlike Hamilton who excluded the poor in his plans for the government and economy. Another example would be that Hamilton’s plan could become corrupted from the chosen few to become greedy and lead into tyranny. Jefferson had instead believed in divided power and in a weaker central government as he feared for a strong central government to take away liberty. The people participating in the federal government could be tempted to serve themselves rather than the people. Jefferson believed in the common people, calling them the “chosen people of God” (8). However Hamilton trusted only the rich and educated to partake in the government which would result with where the “poor would become poorer”…
During the Revolutionary- Federalist Era, politics, parties, programs, policies, and people made an enormous difference in how the new nation should be structured and run. During this era, two men in particular championed politics and their respective parties. These two men were Alexander Hamilton, a Federalist, and Thomas Jefferson, a Democratic-Republican. Both Hamilton and Jefferson were successful college educated intellectuals and politicians who made significant contributions to the development of the United States policies and programs. However Hamilton, despite never being elected President, had more influence over the development of the United States’ policies and programs during the Revolutionary-Federalist Era. Historically Hamilton and Jefferson are known for agreeing to disagree over just about every policy being discussed during the establishment of government structure, and decorum. And it is Hamilton’s policies on economics, government structure, and constitution interpretation, which took precedent over Jefferson’s.…
In regards to political philosophy, Hamiltonians felt that there was a need for a strong central government, while the Jeffersonians believes in a weaker central government. The Hamiltonians viewed the perfect government as one that was able to tax the people and stay debt free. A model common with the British government that was fought against in the Revolution. Opposing their view was the Jeffersonians. They believed that the state’s should hold their own power, and be able to tax as they felt. Because of the different beliefs, this led to separation and division amongst the newly formed states. More often than not, the New England states were siding with Hamilton, and states going through a developmental period economically sided with Jefferson. Jay’s Treaty is a major example of how different the two parties thought. The Federalists believed that the new treaty would be beneficial to the people of America, by opening up trade with the British and rebuild the relationship. On the other hand, the…
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were two of the most influential brilliant minds of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Although, Jefferson and Hamilton disagreed with each other continually, their different viewpoints developed the two most prominent branches of government leading to the separation of powers between state and central government. Hamilton was a strong outspoken federalist that believed the average people were not intelligent enough to make decisions the government makes, as oppose to Jefferson who believed the government should be ran by the people.…
Although Jefferson often showed a strong dislike for the Federalist laws and programs, when he took office he left many of the Federalist programs intact, and except for revoking the excise tax, the Hamiltonian system was mostly left as it was. However, this act of Jefferson’s went against many of the political beliefs held by his party and himself. Jefferson and Hamilton’s philosophies differed greatly in that Jefferson adhered to a weak central government, with most of the power in the hands of the states. He believed that the federal government’s power should be restrained and limited, so that it would not be able to become tyrannical or try and undermine the power of the states and the people.…
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were completely at odds in their vision on how America was to develop. Hamilton wanted to concentrate power in a centralized federal government with limited access and Jefferson wished to diffuse it among all the eligible freemen of the time. Alexander Hamilton feared anarchy and distrusted popular rule while Jefferson feared tyranny and thought in terms of liberty and freedom.…
Both Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were prominent members of society during the era after the revolution. Yet while these two men came from similar backgrounds and both believed in liberty and independence, neither of the two men could stand each other. This was mainly due to the fact that the two men had radically different views on various subjects, and neither was willing to give up or alter their view.…