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In three pages this paper examines how the conflict between these important figures in early America reflect the opposition that existed in the new United States at the time. Two sources are listed in the bibliography.
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women; whites vs. people of color; rich vs. poor; North vs. South. This dichotomy is reflected in the views of two of Americas most important founding fathers, the
first Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and the first Secretary of State and third President Thomas Jefferson. Hamilton grew up in the North, the product of a humble
working-class background whereas Jefferson had the privileged upbringing as a Virginia plantation owners son. Interestingly, however, it was Hamilton who favored a strong federal government ruled by a business-owning
aristocracy and Jefferson supported the notion of rule by the common man. This glaring distinction led to a lengthy conflict between these powerful men that ended only when a
duel between Hamilton and Jeffersons Vice President Aaron Burr ended Hamiltons life. According to Jefferson biographer Dumas Malone: "The two men have passed through the ages as symbols
of a conflict of ideas which runs through the whole of American national history. No other American statesman has personified national power and the rule of the favored few
so well as Hamilton, and no other has glorified self-government and the freedom of the individual to such a degree as Jefferson" (Kapstein, 1997, p. 35). The conflict between
Hamilton and Jefferson is apparent in their diametrically opposed views on popular rule, states rights, a national bank, and the French Revolution. Hamilton was not shy about expressing
his "profound distrust of common people" (Kennedy & Bailey, 1994, p. 184). He believed that the country was subdivided into "the rich and well born" and into what he
described as "the mass of the people" (Kennedy & Bailey, 1994, p. 184). According to Hamilton, the affluent members of American society have the benefit of education, which enables
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