Duru Utkan - 7

Both in the reading passage and the listening section, the ideas of the leading headmen of the United States under George Washington were discussed about which path should country go down the road. On one hand, the author of the reading passage presents the views of Thomas Jefferson who was the secretary of the State. On the other hand, the lecturer in the listening section mentions the aspects of Alexander Hamilton who was the secretary of the treasuary in the same board of directors.

The author implies that in order to govern the country in a faultless way, Jefferson asserted that the public should be Republican. Since Jefferson believed in remaining enormously agricultural is highly essential for the public, he strongly encouraged that the country should be an agricultural society instead of manufacturing. Moreover, he favoured that the system should be based on costless trades which meant there should not be any protective custom duties. Besides, he was afraid of having a federal or central government; thus, he sticked up to the idea that states needed to be more powerful than the federal government. Furthermore, he was seconder to the idea that there should be a strict interpretation of the Constitution. On acount of the reasons that Jefferson prompted, he was convinced that the optimum way for the US government is Republicism.

On the contrary of what was supported in the reading section, the faith of Hamilton is stated in the listening section. Unlike Jefferson, Hamilton was a strong advocate of Federalism. Hamilton tried to sample the British economic system, which is why he suggested to have an industrial society, based on high tariffs of imported manufactured merchandise. In spite of the strict interpretation ideas of Jefferson, Hamilton was strongly opposed to the opinions and believed in broad interpretation. In addition, in order to give rise to the economy and have an accomplishment, he was counting on the idea that there had to be a forceful central government.