Both Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were great Americans. But their contrasting visions for the new nation of America continue to influence our debates today.
Salena Zito writes in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review about "Our New Jeffersonian Era." I hope so. For the past two years, as I travel around the state, I have been developing this theme of the need to move more toward the Jeffersonian view. We are never going to bring back the yeoman farmers of the 18th century (nor should we). But in the tug-of-war between Hamiltonian centralized, top-down, government by elites and the Jeffersonian decentralized, bottom up, government by the people, I vote for more of the former.
From Ms. Zito,
"Republicans were elected in November not because Americans love Republicans; they were elected because their values are in line with this new Jeffersonian era."
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