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Why Did Hamilton Support The Federalists
Federalists, as founded by John Adams and Alexander Hamilton who persist in faith like there should be a strong central government and loose view of constitution. It means they regard anything not forbidden in the constitution is allowed for federalist government. Dealing with foreign countries, they prefer trading and communicating with Britain since they have one of the world’ most powerful navy which is convenient for import and export. They also raised up the idea of forming a national bank which is favored by the businessman. Their military policy of large peacetime army is opposed to Democratic republicans that peacetime army should be small. For other policies, democratic republicans favored weak central government and strict view of

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