The Political, Social, Constitutional, and Economic Philosophies of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson

Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson

The Political, Social, Constitutional, and Economic Philosophies

Hamilton is best renowned for his tenure as Secretary of the Treasury, for it is in that function that he made his most significant and lasting assistance to the governance of the nation. His dream of centralized finances supplied the rudimentary form for a scheme that has endured to the present day -- yet in the implementation of his concepts, Hamilton came across fierce attacks against his feature and beliefs.

The constituents of the "Hamiltonian system" that he offered to ...