... were supporters of the growth of federal power and a strong central government. They believed in the Elastic Clause, which allowed the Constitution to be up to individual interpretation. With this, the Federalists gave the government powers that could only be implied-these powers were not explicitly written in the Constitution. These characterizations of the Jeffersonian Republicans ... a national bank unconstitutional. They believed the government did not have to power to pass this charter. Therefore, they were strict constructionists because they had a strict interpretation of the Cons...

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... the federal government, which he saw invading individual liberty, while Hamilton distrusted the people; Jefferson saw American as agrarian, while Hamilton saw it as industrious, and while Jefferson fought for strict interpretation of the constitution, Hamilton favored loose implied powers. It only seemed a mater of time before these converging, congregating and colliding opinions would show themselves prominent in American society. Introduction Cunningham ... ...

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