APUSH. Hamilton vs Jefferson.

ashernm
Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:25:23 +0000

jimbob1225, Jefferson was not a leftist. The contemporary analogue is libertarian (though it may differ a bit), between libertarianism and classical liberalism. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
Jefferson’s political philosophy, ie. classical liberalism, has almost no representatives in modern politics, except possibly one in Congress, Ron Paul. And classical liberalism has no home on the one dimensional right-left continuum, although it tends to have more adherents on the right.

The occurrence of Hamilton’s predictions do not make his positions any more valid.