The Shaping of America

Hamilton argued that such institution would be "of primary importance to the prosperous administration of the Finances, and would be of the greater utility in the operations connected with the support of the Public Credit" (45) that was the only way Hamilton thought will be able to make the American government and society stable. On the other hand, Thomas Jefferson, anti- federalist, opposes Hamilton's ideas on recovering the country after the war. He believed that people should be free and not be under the full control of the government because the national bank idea would treat people unfairly. For example, all the governmental positions and the manufacturing industry jobs would be occupied by rich people while poor people would be disadvantaged from this decision. The implied power would also make an economic inequality that Jefferson strongly disagreed with. The argument that happened between the two members of Washington's cabinet over the bank led to a sharp debate in many other things. .
             Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson debate included much more things in that period of time. Federalist represented by Hamilton wanted a manufacturing, commerce, finance, overseas trade, tariffs, and business protection. However, Republicans wanted a simple agrarian economy favoring "yeoman" farmers, who are the small farmers in the south, and they wanted the government to support the interest of a common man. These different views of life-styles made a huge conflict between the two opposite parties represented by the two main leaders, Jefferson and Hamilton. They were both working in the Washington's cabinet. Hamilton as the Secretary of Treasury with his group from New England, and Jefferson as a Secretary of state with a group majority from the interior regions. When the French Revolution started, Hamilton despised the violations and social disruptions, but Jefferson admired the French Revolution because he thought it is the proper way to get freedom.