Leave it to the politicians of today to get it all wrong today, especially if they want to rationalize today’s liberal politics by suggesting Thomas Hamilton, a founding father, would be a strong government liberal. This on the basis of his being a Federalist at the creation of the United States.
He
believed in the constitution, as it was written with all its
restrictions, not its expansion. That’s a major difference with
today’s political liberalism. All the liberals today point to is
the fact that Hamilton wanted the federal government to take over the
debts of the states, which were incurred in fighting the
Revolutionary War. This was not a permanent incursion into state
affairs.
The
Jeffersonians headed by Thomas Jefferson believed in more states’
rights than did Hamilton’s Federalists, and though they are
supposedly the source of the current Democrat Party, they bore little
resemblance to today’s liberal politicians. (See the Earl J.
Weinreb NewsHole® comments.)
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