During infancy the people of the United States of America were supposedly in a position where they could include their opinion on any issue that they felt concerned them and their country. However it is well known that on many occasions only a few select voices were heard.
The two men are both key figures in the history of the American nation, combined maybe even more important that the man who ruled over them – George Washington. It was during his run as president that Washington appointed Hamilton. “Hamilton was born a British subject on in the West Indies on January 11, 1755” (Mitchell, 2002). His father James was a Scottish merchant and his mother; Rachael Levine was of French descent. “Hamilton's birth was illegitimate” (Kaplan, 2002). He worked hard, being described as a self-made man and war hero as the first secretary of the treasury. He later placed Jefferson. “Jefferson was born April 13, 1743 on a plantation in Shadwell, Virginia” (Read, 1999). He spent his boyhood exploring the wilderness and reading books. He attended boarding school and then College where he studied math, science, literature, philosophy, and law. In April 1767, he became a lawyer and was admitted to the Virginia bar as secretary of the state. There is no question both were brilliant men and even less doubt that they both had “very different notions of the destination of the United States should take” (Harper, 2004), as well as the way to reach these goals.
The two would find themselves on differing sides of many debates and discussions in congress during America’s crucial early life. Both men represented the interests and ideals of certain groups of the American people. Jefferson represented the republican ideals and his followers tended to be made up of artisans, shopkeepers, frontier settlers and owners of small, self-maintained farms in the inner south and west.................
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