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This 6 page paper delves into the past and looks at Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton and their different ideologies. The focus of this paper is on how their visions of the future of America differ. Ideas about agriculture and manufacturing are discussed. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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the country great. After all, there are two sides to every issue and when parties complain, and individuals voice different opinions, things get accomplished. Also, it is not as if
the feuding just begun recently. There has always been a great divide in the United States politically and in fact, the rivalry between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton is legendary.
Jefferson did not trust federal government, and he saw it as the enemy of individual liberty (Sarracino 226). This is how many libertarians feel today, as well as people on
the fringes of society who are all the way to the right. Today, liberals are characterized as clinging to a strong, central government that makes many decisions for the people.
Unlike Jefferson, Hamilton never trusted the citizenry, and he saw it as incapable of exercising freedom without the strong arm of federal authority (226). Like liberal democrats, Hamilton sees the
government as being better able to make decisions for the people. Jefferson and Hamilton had different visions on the future of the new community and each believed that the
American community would be best shaped economically, socially, and politically by their own plans. In general, Jefferson loved the land and saw an agrarian society in America but Hamilton had
high hopes for an American role in commerce and industry (Sarracino 226). Still, Hamilton had this to say about agriculture: "It ought readily to be conceded that the cultivation of
the earth-as the primary and most certain source of national supply-as the immediate and chief source of subsistence to man- as the principal source of those materials which constitute the
nutriment of other kinds of labor-as including a state most favourable to the freedom and independence of the human mind-one, perhaps, most conducive to the multiplication of the human species-has
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