1. Elitism in America
Hamilton also believed in a strong central government. ... 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. ...
Thoreau and Emerson saw a very different result in the burgeoning industrial society that Alexander Hamilton saw fifty years before them. Where Hamilton saw industry and progress, Thoreau only saw loss as improvements saw land losing much of its natural and, in his view, preferable state. ...
Did the answer lie in their opposition with the agenda of Alexander Hamilton and the increases of power both to the executive branch as well as the legislative branch of government? Hamilton pushed for The Bank of the United States, a large standing Army raised by the President (Congress was to raise and support armies,) a Department of Navy, funding and excise taxes, and, in foreign policy, a neutrality that was sympathetic to British interest to the detriment of France. Many legislators, especially those in the south, were alarmed to the point that a separation of the Union was suggested as ...