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Shortly after the revolution, many drastic changes occures in the United States. The political asepct of this perios of social adolescence was most spetacular. Alexander Hamiltons,and Thomas Jeffersons contrasting political philosophies had one one thing in common; they both created a strong government and society in the new American republic. Throughout his life Hamilton was shaped into a loyal patriot, but he regarded people with an attitude. Jefferson was also a patriot, but he saw people at there best at all times. As the United States was just

beginning, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson Had 2 very different

visions for their contry. During 1607 to 1865, it was the philosophy of Jefferson that predominated. Hamilton favored a strong central government; Jefferson was and remained committed to the rights of the individual. The foreshadowing or the dispute between these two men, begin when Washington was the president.

Washington acted carfully and delibratly, aware of the need to build an executive structure that could accommodate future presidents. He hoped to prevent sectionalism from dividing the new nation. An able administrator, he nevertheless failed to heal the widening gap between parties led by secretary of treasury Alexander Hamilton. Becuase he supported many of Hamiltons policies-the assumption of state debts, the bank of the United Stated, and the excise tax. Washington became the target or attacks by Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans. When Washington was inaugurated on April 30 1789, in Mew York, the first national captial, he sought to unite the nation and establish the authority of the new government at home and beyond the boundaries of the country. Greatly distressed by the emergence of the Hamilton- Jefferson rivalry, Washington worked to maintain neutrality but accutally sympathized more with Hamilton, who had is own ideas in mind, for the country.

Alexander Hamilton was one of the most influential of the United States\' founding fathers. As the first secretary of the treasury he placed the new nation on a firm financial footing, and although his supporting of strong national government brought him onto bitter conflict with Thomas Jefferson and others, his politcal philosophy

was ultimatly to prevail in governmental development. He proposed to pay the nations debt in full and also to assume the unpaid debts of the varios states. with the nations