This is an excerpt from the best article I have read exposing what Thomas Jefferson was up against with Alexander Hamilton.
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In 1913, government acquired effective control of the country’s wealth and strengthened its rule over the states by passing three laws: the income tax, the direct election of senators, and the federal reserve act. The first two arrived as the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments; the “currency bill” was slipped in just before Christmas. All three, per Hamilton’s rhetoric, were promoted under cover of “the public interest.” All three were cons — abuses of confidence by public officials. All three “delivered a death blow to the old Jeffersonian tradition in American politics,” and brought about “the final, decisive victory for the Hamiltonians.”

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By Iain Martin
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