APUSH. Hamilton vs Jefferson.

ashernm
Sat, 31 Dec 2005 23:07:01 +0000

I prefer Jefferson’s policies, for the reasons kchen stated. Hamilton is the statist/mercantilist and Jefferson the agrarian classical liberal/whig. Asking your preference is to ask your position: are you a statist or minarchist (for a minimal state)?

But Hamilton was far more correct in his predictions, as contemporary society is hardly agrarian (About 2% of jobs are in farming), and more industrial, but even more so comprised of services, which neither imagined.