Differences Between Hamilton And Thomas Jefferson

During the late 1700s, after the American Revolution, George Washington became the first President of the United States. In 1789 when Washington assumed the presidency, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson both served as cabinet members. Hamilton served as Secretary of the Treasury and Jefferson the Secretary of State. Alexander Hamilton is well known as the founder of the Federalists, a group of people who favored adopting the Constitution as the backbone of this nation. That view was opposed by Jefferson, founder of the Democrat-Republican Party, and by virtue anti-federalists. Those that followed Jeffersonian ideologies believed that the Articles of Confederation were a suffice method of running the country. Hamilton believed in a large
national bank, while Jefferson believed in states’ rights. Overall, both gentlemen founded the first two major political parties, which created the platform ideas of our nation’s current two main parties.