Carson Holloway

Hamilton versus Jefferson in the Washington Administration

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781107521117
• ISBN-10: 1107521114
• Artikelnr.: 43680496

Autorenporträt

Carson Holloway is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska, Omaha and is the author of several works of political philosophy. He has been a Visiting Fellow in Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and a Visiting Fellow in American Political Thought at the Heritage Foundation. His scholarly articles have appeared in the Review of Politics, Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, and Perspectives on Political Science, and he has also written for First Things, Public Discourse, and National Review.

Inhaltsangabe

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.