o labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if he had a chosen people.(Page 36) With Jeffersons faith in agriculture and his belief that all urban classes were corrupt seemed to go in the exact opposite direction of the ideas of the constitution makers. Jefferson accepted the idea of a balanced government and realized that the people needed to be checked. He designed a constitution for Virginia, which used the system of checks and balances and had property requirements for voters. Jefferson argued that a government that is not balanced by a system of checks is quite tyrannical, just because the governing body is chosen by the people doesnt mean after its chosen that the people have no say. When the Constitution was written up Jefferson was opposed to only two things; the lack of a bill of rights and that the president can be elected for more than one term. The most prominent point of Jeffersons democracy is its relation to agrarian life of the time, The United States would become a nation of farmers, tilling their own soil, independent, informed, unexcitable, and incorruptible.(Page 40) He believed that all of the working class, merchants, speculators, and cities are mostly corrupt, the only group not corrupt would be the farmers. After some of the years had passed of feuding Jefferson declared that the struggle between the two parties was one between those who trusted the people and those who distrusted the people. Hamiltons reign had given much devotion to the mercantile and investing classes, while Jefferson wanted preference to the agrarian classes. Hamilton helped the people who invested in manufactures, commerce, and public securities and put as much as a tax burden on the farmers and planters as he could. When Jefferson was elected president in 1800 the Federalists believed that their political world had come to an end. When Jefferson had come to power he wanted to undo the many works of Hamilton, including his ...
