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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Some Roots of Today's Political Controversies in the US

The great political debate in US history was, and now is, framed by the fundamental disagreement between Hamilton and Jefferson. Jefferson was anti federal banking system, anti Washington, anti federal intrusion into education, anti "Wall Street" and for limited federal power and authority. Jeffersonian became the Democratic party under Andrew Jackson in response to the Federalist progressive Hamiltonian policies of J Q Adams, Webster, Clay and Calhoun (who later defects). JQ Adams proposed the American system of federal support for infrastructure to benefit American business and to create jobs through federally supported education. This became the Whig party in active opposition to the disastrous economic polices of Jackson's Anti banking, Jeffersonian Tea Party view (resulting in the Financial Panic of 1837). The Whigs attempted a progressive agenda side stepping the issue of slavery; the result was, when the Jeffersonian Jacksonian Democratic "Tea Party" forced the issue of no regulation of personal business decisions and federal regulation such as owning slaves, the Whig including Lincoln had to reform as a radical Progressive Party (GOP) to respond to the Tea Party led by Jefferson Davis and others who believed that  community standards trump federal authority.