Hamilton versus Jefferson in the Washington Administration

Hamilton versus Jefferson in the Washington Administration

Completing the Founding or Betraying the Founding?

Holloway, Carson (University of Nebraska, Omaha)

Cambridge University Press

10/2015

354

Dura

Inglês

9781107109056

15 a 20 dias

Students of the American founding will be interested in this study of the political clashes between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson when they served in George Washington's cabinet. The book examines why these two great founders became political enemies as they tried to put the new government into operation.
1. Introduction; Part I. A Debate between Cabinet Colleagues: 2. Establishing the public faith: Hamilton's Report on Public Credit; 3. First signs of division: assumption and the Back Pay Bill; 4. Establishing energetic government: Hamilton's Report on a National Bank; 5. Defending limited government: Jefferson's critique of the constitutionality of the national bank; 6. Defending energetic government: Hamilton on the constitutionality of the national bank; Part II. A Clash of Rival Party Leaders: 7. Securing American independence: Hamilton's Report on Manufactures; 8. The revolution, alienation of territory, and the apportionment bill; 9. Aiming for monarchy: Jefferson's critique of Hamiltonianism; 10. Tending toward anarchy: Hamilton's critique of Jeffersonianism; Part III. Founding Foreign Policy: 11. Two views of the French Revolution; 12. Faith among nations I: Jefferson's opinion on the French treaties; 13. Faith among nations II: Hamilton's opinion on the French treaties; 14. The constitutional and political theory of Hamilton's Pacificus papers; 15. Jefferson, Madison, and Helvidius' critique of Pacificus; 16. Conclusion.
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