During Adam’s presidency, a bid for larger armed forces, Jefferson was against that completely and didn’t want a standing army. Later, Jefferson attacked the Barbary States in Africa (Document E). The pirates were boarding their ships, stealing cargo and completely harassing the American shipping industry greatly. Though Jefferson had a reason to attack the pirates, Jefferson contradicted his own beliefs as well as the Constitution because he wasn’t even legally allowed to declare war against another country without an act of the Congress approving it.
The Jeffersonian Republican presidents Jefferson and Madison often reflected the beliefs of the Federalist Hamilton by not standing firm with their beliefs and contradicting their own words. Even though Hamilton’s reasoning wasn’t the happiest or the easiest he was truthful. Jefferson seemed like all he really did was talk without actually putting thought into what he was