... between Jefferson and Aaron Burr takes place. They tie, and Hamilton and Adams campaign for Jefferson, and he wins over Burr. Napoleon makes a deal with the King of Spain which gives the Louisiana Territory to France. 1801-Jefferson's inaugural address, March 4. Aaron Burr becomes vice President. The Barbary Pirates start looting American ships and the head of Tripoli government cuts down the ... expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark departs, moving up the Missouri River. Burr challenges Hamilton to a duel. Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in the duel at Weehawken...

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As the two-party system emerged, Hamiltonian Federalists and Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans disagreed on many matters. Their political philosophies were complete opposites in almost every aspect. Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, the two people whose names appear in the names of the aforementioned political parties, were also very different from each other as well. The Alien and Sedition Acts enacted ... Federalists. The Federalist congress decided to raise the residence requirements for aliens to become citizens from five years to an unreasonable fourteen years. This outrageous ...

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... of our "founding father's", the ones who established our governemnt and function. I am reminded of why they came over here. I think of the Constitution as the mission statement for the American government. America's set of standards. It gaurantees that we cannot stray from the vision of what we stand for. The constitution to me stands basically, for freedom of rights for ... of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid." - Alexander Hamilton Case study: in October of 2001...

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