Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson's views greatly impacted the United States' evolution from republicanism to democracy. ... It was adopted in 1791 as a form of protection for America's principles. ... This served as a help to Hamilton since it created the possibility of establishing the National Bank. ... In conclusion, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson's different perspectives were shown above. ... Because of the ideas provided by Hamilton and Jefferson we have the freedoms we do today. ...

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In the 1790's, America was a young, inexperienced nation easily affected by the events occurring in the world around it. During this time, there was a great amount of indecision over how to construct this new government to provide a stable structure on which to build the United States of America. ... Led by Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, the Federalists based their views in the belief that a government should be run by a central power. ... These views were displayed in Hamilton's Program, which favored the wealthy. ... Because Americans were unsure of whether their new political...

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Hamilton also believed in a strong central government. ... America is youthful and new in Roosevelt's idea. ... He then describes how Alexander Hamilton was for a centralized government while Thomas Jefferson was an advocate for a government that would intervene, not to destroy individualism, but to protect it. ... The response was to implement a Hamilton and Jacksonian view of centralized government but will guard a new set of individual rights. ... There had to be change for America to move forward. ...

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Of Judges and Senators It is a fact of American political life, that a party's view of the proper division of power among the branches of government depends on which branches it controls. ... As Meg Greenfield once said, in debates of this kind the politicians seem to be saying, Don't blame me, Alexander Hamilton made me do it. ...

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A Uniquely American Voice As America entered into a generation of native-born Americans, a call for an identity that was exclusively American began to emerge. Americans yearned for a uniquely American expression of themselves through their literature. ... Philip Freneau genuinely portrayed the American individual in his poetry and helped to develop themes that were uniquely American. ... Freneau was one of many an American who saw America as the key to freedom and individuality and the dream of justice. ... consisting of the three politicians: Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madiso...

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Although both members of George Washington's cabinet in the US government both Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson held very different views on representation and whether or not it should, or did, promote popular rule. In 1787 Hamilton said "in all communities there are the few and the many. ... He believed that without the educated supervision of the richer people, the American public were a dangerous thing, politically and socially. ... The American people would not have any say in the policies enforced by the government. ...

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The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton wanted to help the ratification of the "new" Constitution, in 1787, so he decided that he would write and publish articles in order to explain the concepts of this Constitution. James Madison and John Jay were two other contributors that Hamilton added to help defend the new Constitution by writing articles as well. ... These Papers have been very important in American history because of the vital and genuine explanation of the Constitution. ... In other words, Madison's, Hamilton's, and other contributors to the Papers views and ideas ...

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The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton wanted to help the ratification of the "new" Constitution, in 1787, so he decided that he would write and publish articles in order to explain the concepts of this Constitution. James Madison and John Jay were two other contributors that Hamilton added to help defend the new Constitution by writing articles as well. ... These Papers have been very important in American history because of the vital and genuine explanation of the Constitution. ... In other words, Madison's, Hamilton's, and other contributors to the Papers views and ...

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Today American democracy would not work without them. ... To better understand the decline of the party system one must first understand the development and the positive attributes of the early American party system. Party competition first emerged, when James Madison and Thomas Jefferson sought to create a political opposition to Alexander Hamilton, John Adams and the Federalists. ... He feared that Hamilton's view of the Constitution and the unitary system that he advocated would destroy the delicate balance of powers that Madison's understanding of government had envisioned. ... ...

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James Madison, according to some, is a prime example of a leader who attempted to secure the American people's civil liberties. ... Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Papers, for example, was his way of anticipating federalism. ... People feel that Madison, Hamilton, and the other Founding Fathers were fueled by self-interest when writing the Constitution. ... Roche also went on to call Madison and Hamilton's Federalist Papers propaganda that got the "ideological build-up under way" (Roche, 25). ...

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Alexander Hamilton suggested this idea because the judges will "be too often the leaders, or the tools of the most cunning or the most numerous faction; and on this account can hardly be expected to possess the requisite neutrality towards those, whose conduct may be the subject of scrutiny (pg. 5)." ... Sebastian Mallaby discusses how Americans are unified in everything except democracy. ... "It is precisely because of their idealistic expectations that Americans have fallen into cynicism. Because they are idealistic, Americans are constantly proposing ways of improving their political syst...

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The real authors were Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. ... Here in a condensed format he is telling the American people that the Federal Government will be made up of people from the states whom will have the best interests in mind of their people and their residing state. ... Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmoun...

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I feel as Americans we should follow what was originally decided in the Constitution, a Republic form of government. ... Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of the constitution, who also supported a Republic government said: "It had been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. ... So I completely agree with Madison and the rest of the founding fathers that a Republic is the best and only practical form of government for the United States of America. ...

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The American dream, just that a dream. ... So, many American unable to read or write. We the people of American do nothing to help the see that the American dream be more than just a myth. ... Another myth that America and the rest of the world hold on to is that America is a big "Melting pot". ... So if anyone could create a great government with political, cultural and economic greatness than Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton are the people I would what to set the groundwork for this government. ...

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