Alexander Hamilton was a brilliant member of the federal government whose political principles were based on the idea that the greatest threat to political stability was anarchy rather than monarchy. He believed that the government should be left in the hands of a concentrated few, and that those chosen would lead the country into prosperity. He did not think the “swinish multitudes” capable of governing themselves. On the other hand, Thomas Jefferson was in support …showed first 75 words of 494 total…

…showed last 75 words of 494 total…restrained normal commerce, like monopolies and trusts, for the good of the prosperity of the country. Hamilton’s principles, though frowned upon by many that were running from the tyranny of England, were those that kept the nation together. A country that later became a superpower in the eyes of its neighbor relations would never have emerged as such if there had been no brain to establish the functions of its many member body parts.