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Differences Between The Political Parties Of Thomas Jefferson And Alexander Hamilton
Politics is a whole other world that revolves around laws, elections, and strategy. A world full of disagreements, debates, strategizing and bringing down an opponent. Political Parties involve presidential elections, debates, campaigns, money, planning and effort. All the news about Donald Trump holding a lead in Caucuses, Sander’s edge shrinks, close fights between Sanders and Clinton etc. Those are all the fights in between the political parties to decide who is going to represent each party to run for president. All of the campaigns, debates, and votes for president started with the argumentative Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton.
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were not on good terms before and after the Cabinet. Jefferson said, "Hamilton was not only a monarchist, but of a monarchy corruption." (Doc 1) Hamilton also commented, "They (Jefferson and his supporters) have a womanish attachment to France, and a womanish resentment against Great Britain." (Doc 2). Both of them have very different opinions and were opponents in almost every discussion. They were archenemies.
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The Secretary of State was Jefferson and the Department of Treasury was Hamilton. Even though Washington had hired these talented, intelligent and helpful people, they didn’t always get along, especially Jefferson and Hamilton. They argued and had the opposite ideas on some very large issues that were happening in the U.S. after the war. Washington had said this about the idea of political parties, “It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments…riot and insurrection.” (Doc. 4) Washington’s warning was unheeded as there are political parties today and they are not causing chaos and

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