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    Tex Elliott Mr. Matthews US History 10 5 October 2017 Federalist VS Anti-Federalist Since America’s early founding in 1776 we have been a country of wide ranging political views. Our first two political parties were the Federalist and the Anti-Federalist. These two parties changed how people think about government issues, political opinions, and the topics that drove the growth of our nation. Federalist and Anti-Federalist split the nation with beliefs, important politicians, and support from

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    legendary duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr is related in its entirety. It was by far the most prominent deadly standoff between two men in history. Ellis relates the background and brief biographies of the two men involved in the duel. He also reveals the context for the duel, a culmination of political and personal jabs at Burrs character by Hamilton. In fact these jabs held a good deal of truth, and finally resulted in Burr challenging Hamilton. Both Hamilton and Burr went to the plains

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    chose was Loose vs Strict Construction. In my opinion, the main difference is about the bank issue. A loose construction means that if says nothing about the issue, then you can do it. A strict one means that if it doesn’t say one way or the other, then you can’t do the process. At first, Alexander Hamilton wanted to build a national bank that would be only for the government. But Thomas Jefferson disagreed with Hamilton’s statement. Since Jefferson is not with the same party as Hamilton, he believed

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    Thomas Jefferson was an educated Republican and like many politicians today he made some empty promises and did not really portray what he stood for. In my opinion I agree with Henry Adams criticism that Jefferson and his party said one thing and did another. Jefferson and the his republican party won the white house. Before his presidency he expressed his views to be a strict constructionist. While in office he portrayed his political views to be a Republican. Yet his republican party actually

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    introduced to Hamilton: An American Musical written by the young composer, Lin-Manuel Miranda. Hamilton is a musical, based on the book Alexander Hamilton written by Ron Chernow, which tells the story of the life and the tragedies of founding father Alexander Hamilton. This musical uses various styles of rap, hip-hop and R&B music that remain foreign genres when it comes to the average show tune that is heard (Piepenburg 1). Bringing in about 30 million dollars at the box-office and rising, Hamilton is right

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    sort of a two-party system starting with the Patriots and the Loyalists. It wasn’t until after the Constitutional Convention when two separate parties started to form. The two parties that started to emerge were the Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, and the Democratic

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    back. When Alexander Hamilton was appointed Secretary of the Treasury, he composed a resolution to the debt issue. This resolution, according to our textbook was to develop a more commercial/industrial economy as opposed to the agricultural based economy that was prevalent at the time. Hamilton viewed the debt as an asset. To further elaborate on Hamilton’s plan; he decided to fund debts by selling bonds which paid annual interest to holders, in order to pay these bonds Hamilton also proposed new tariffs

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    Alexander Hamilton, advocated the importance of a strong central government in leading the country forward, while the Democratic Republicans, led by Thomas Jefferson, promoted increasing the common man’s role in government. Although both political parties had good intentions for the future of the United States, the Federalist Party was much more effective at uniting the American people, avoiding domestic faction, and keeping the best interests in mind for the future of the United States. Hamilton said

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    it may be helpful to know that Hamilton and Burr’s “respective genealogies also created temperamental bloodline and stylistic contrasts. Unlike Burr’s distinguished bloodline, which gave his aristocratic bearing its roots and biological rationale, Hamilton’s more dashing, and consistently audacious style developed as a willful personal wager against the odds of his impoverished origins.” (Founding Brothers, pg.33) This is saying that Arron Burr, and Alexander Hamilton were already set to butt heads

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    Aaron Hoye POLS 136 Tuesday Class In Review- The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson If you lived as an educated American in the early nineteenth century, being rated for competence in office at such an early point in the history of the nation of America must have looked very different from how it does today. Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States of America, served from 1801-1809. Being the virtual founder of the Democratic-Republican party that he was, he vehemently opposed the popular

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