Hamilton versus Jefferson in the Washington Administration: Completing the Founding or Betraying the Founding?
Cambridge University Press, 4/7/2016
EAN 9781107521117, ISBN10: 1107521114
Paperback, 354 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
By the middle of 1792, just a little more than three years after America's new government under the Constitution had been set in motion, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson - President George Washington's two most important cabinet secretaries and two of the most eminent men among the American founders - had become open and bitter political enemies. Their dispute was not personal but political in the highest sense. Each believed that the debate between them was over regime principles. Each believed that he was protecting the newly established republic, and that the other was laboring to destroy it. Carson Holloway's Hamilton versus Jefferson in the Washington Administration examines Hamilton and Jefferson's differences, seeking to explain why these great founders came to disagree so profoundly and vehemently about the political project to which both were committed and had dedicated so much thought and effort.
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.