Foreign policy was different in those days, and besides, Jefferson was the one who said "commerce with all nations, but entangling alliance with none".
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Yeah, but the whiskey rebellion, excise taxes and a couple more things completely disqualify Washington. Hamilton isn't even on the table.
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No, not "enough said".
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that's bullshit. Jefferson was a hell of a great president. There were only 300 federal employees at the time, pretty awesome if you like small government.
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Washington pardoned everyone at the Whiskey rebellion.
Why was foreign policy different? Every bit of human nature true then is true now.
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Jefferson transferred 800,000 square miles from rule by a dictator (Napoleon), to freedom.
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pfft. huge crony capitalist. used his govt positions to make himself rich.
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I have to disagree. Economics was only a budding field at that time and things like the excise tax and its impact wasn't fully understood. Washington did far more good than his few negatives.
Unconstitutionally. And he didn't end the bank.
You can defend Washington's morality and argue that he may not have had enough information to make the right decisions, and this may be true. But his actions stand objectively.
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Thomas Jefferson was the most brilliant philosopher.
Franklin had a remarkably well rounded life. One of the most well rounded lives in history.
But really, I would say John Jay is being criminally overlooked in this poll. He was one of the writers of the Federalist Papers.
He was an abolitionist and non-interventionist, and proponent of a strong currency.
He served as the 6th President of the Continental Congress, 2nd U.S. Secretary of Foreign Affairs, the 2nd Governor of New York, and the 1st Supreme Court Justice of the United States.
Franklin had a remarkably well rounded life. One of the most well rounded lives in history.
But really, I would say John Jay is being criminally overlooked in this poll. He was one of the writers of the Federalist Papers.
He was an abolitionist and non-interventionist, and proponent of a strong currency.
He served as the 6th President of the Continental Congress, 2nd U.S. Secretary of Foreign Affairs, the 2nd Governor of New York, and the 1st Supreme Court Justice of the United States.
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He paid the french when he really should have paid the indians..
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The French had legal title to the land.
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John Adams.
As a Founding Father he was the intellectual and passionate drive behind the Revolution. Long before Jefferson wrote the Declaration, long before Washington fielded an army, long before Independence became an acceptable ideal, Adams was calling for it. It was Adams who had Henry Lee of Virginia propose his (Adam's) article on independence from England. It was Adams who saw the genius in appointing a second rate Colonel from Virginia as commanding General of the Continental Army. It was Adams who knew Jefferson had the poet's soul and could articulate the argument for liberty more than any other person could. The man was the driving dynamo of the Revolution, he was the tireless irate minority that spoke for liberty.
As a Founding Father he was the intellectual and passionate drive behind the Revolution. Long before Jefferson wrote the Declaration, long before Washington fielded an army, long before Independence became an acceptable ideal, Adams was calling for it. It was Adams who had Henry Lee of Virginia propose his (Adam's) article on independence from England. It was Adams who saw the genius in appointing a second rate Colonel from Virginia as commanding General of the Continental Army. It was Adams who knew Jefferson had the poet's soul and could articulate the argument for liberty more than any other person could. The man was the driving dynamo of the Revolution, he was the tireless irate minority that spoke for liberty.
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lol, that is all.
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Said and did are two different things. We learned that with Reagan.
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Against the laws of the Constitution by cutting out Congress. That Napoleon was whom Jefferson bought it from is irrelevant.
who gave them legal title?
I would completely agree with you. He did so much. He's one of those people that you respect even if you disagree with.
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