[billbears]

It traces the origins of the GOP to the proto-Republican, Alexander Hamilton, and the Federalists and that of the Democrat Party to its ancestors Jefferson, Clinton and Burr.

Well, Hamilton argued for big centralized government, internal improvements, a national bank, and a monarch to boot. Jefferson argued for federalism and the rights of the states to offset the powers of the federal government. Today, in theory we have Democrats calling for even more of Hamilton's ideals and again theoretically, Republicans calling for limited government and more power locally more along the lines of Jefferson. That being said, both parties in reality have hooked on full force to the ideals of that king worshipper Hamilton.

BTW, justshutup, how is a monarchy not really a monarchy? And yes I have read the book. Talk about revisionism.....

[justshutupandtakeit]

Hamilton never argued for a BIG government centralized or no. He did want a government capable of national defense and national development. You can not point to one word of a Hamilton argument for a monarch. Discussions reported second hand, and out of context at the Constitutional Convention don't count. Show me where Hamilton argued for a monarch.

Jefferson's states were far more repressive than the Federal government ever has been. They controlled people to such an extent that they were forced to join Slave patrols or pay a fine. J. wanted states to leave the petty tyrants of the Slaverocracy alone.

Democrats opposed Hamilton's ideals in 1790 and still do to this day.

Care to point out what revisionism was in the book. Of course, having an inability to accept historical fact handicaps you but go ahead.