system of banks, funding, and revenues, but figured that too many problems would arise. Jefferson soon found that the agrarian masses were becoming heavily influenced by the urban masses. Jefferson had done away with excise duties while still lowering the national debt. He hoped that the Louisiana Purchase would widen the area for agrarian expansion. Republicans were unable to grasp and follow the theory of an agrarian democracy as well as the concept of an agrarian economy. Jefferson called for, A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.(Page 49) Jefferson and his followers had seen the terrible effects of British influence on American affairs and thought Hamiltons system was a mere continuation of it. They believed that Hamilton had helped the capitalists at the expense agrarians. Jefferson did not hope to set up a government that would help the agrarians at the expense of the capitalists but would let things alone. People before Jefferson saw that the government was needed to interfere to help the poor but Jefferson claimed that the only interference needed was to deprive the rich of certain things such as, interest bearing debts and bounties. He believed in laissez- faire economics and thought if the government played no favorites then the wealth would become evenly distributed. Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man...
