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::::Let me set the record straight, I think Alexander Hamilton was conservative, but there are plenty of other more conservative founding fathers.  Saying most makes it much more debeatable as well as appearng to be slightly revisionist, preferable I would prefer to just say conservative, or nothing at all.  Personally I am not sure if the term conservative or liberal belongs with any of the founding fathers.  The argument can be made that Jefferson was more conservative than Hamilton, with his belief in the right to vote should belong to all people, and that the goverment should be small, and the constiution must be taken as close to literally as possible.  Hamilton is the one who pushed for the alien and sediation acts to be past by Adams.  Hamilton is not a one sided charater and to say he is the most conservative of the founding fathers is stretching and distorting the truth ever so slightly.  19:25, --RIGHTstuff 17 March 2010 (EST)

::::Let me set the record straight, I think Alexander Hamilton was conservative, but there are plenty of other more conservative founding fathers.  Saying most makes it much more debeatable as well as appearng to be slightly revisionist, preferable I would prefer to just say conservative, or nothing at all.  Personally I am not sure if the term conservative or liberal belongs with any of the founding fathers.  The argument can be made that Jefferson was more conservative than Hamilton, with his belief in the right to vote should belong to all people, and that the goverment should be small, and the constiution must be taken as close to literally as possible.  Hamilton is the one who pushed for the alien and sediation acts to be past by Adams.  Hamilton is not a one sided charater and to say he is the most conservative of the founding fathers is stretching and distorting the truth ever so slightly.  19:25, --RIGHTstuff 17 March 2010 (EST)

:::::I'll add to that this thought; if Hamilton was one of the most conservative it stands to reason that Jefferson would have been one of the most liberal. They disagreed on nearly every issue. Personally, I think liberal and conservative are too fluid of terms to be applied historically in any way that attempts to connect it to a modern understanding. Hamilton believed in bigger federal government and primary control by the elite class, Jefferson believed in bigger state governments and equal control by all classes. But there are a lot of points that don't easily fit into modern political categories.

:::::I'll add to that this thought; if Hamilton was one of the most conservative it stands to reason that Jefferson would have been one of the most liberal. They disagreed on nearly every issue. Personally, I think liberal and conservative are too fluid of terms to be applied historically in any way that attempts to connect it to a modern understanding. Hamilton believed in bigger federal government and primary control by the elite class, Jefferson believed in bigger state governments and equal control by all classes. But there are a lot of points that don't easily fit into modern political categories.