Part 1 of Essay
The Washington administration was the first to bring together in the cabinet of the United States, the Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and the Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton. Jefferson and Hamilton began to take different views when the government began to address the issue of the old war debts and the w ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... clause in which the Constitution gave the government the power to pass laws that were necessary for the welfare of the nation. “ This began the argument between the “strict constructionists” (Jefferson) who believed in the strict interpretation of the Constitution by not going an inch beyond its clearly expressed provisions, and the “loose constructionists” (Hamilton) who wished to reason out all sorts of implications from what it said”. Hamilton and Jefferson began to disagree more and more. Hamilton wrot ....