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my time, clinton, hands down.Just post the name of your favorite president and I'll post a poll later with the top ten most listed options.
If you want to, go ahead and post why you think they kick ass; maybe this'll generate some interesting debate.
I also find it odd that some people are saying FDR and George Washington. Hello, opposite sides of the spectrum. :shock:
How can anyone like Thomas Jefferson & FDR? That'd be like liking Guns & Roses and Flock of Seagulls.
You cannot respect some one from the other side of the political spectrum? Why not?
Just curious... why?
Oh good grief. :roll:
You have to look at each for their respective time periods and what they accomplished.
By the way, do you think the Jefferson who wrote about limited government before the Constitution would agree with the Jefferson who expanded government by buying the Louisiana Purchase and otherwise making decisions to expand the federal government?
Why? .......
Read a history book and you will know. I am not the teacher here. You are.
Ooooooooooooooooooookay..... :doh
Ooooooooooooooooooookay..... :doh
James Madison.
Madison also opposed Hamiltonianism (along with Jefferson) and was the the author of the federalist papers I agree with most strongly. In fact, if we had stayed with Madison's vision of the constitution, instead of veering towards Hamilton's, my own anti-federalist ideologies would have never become a footnote in the annals of U.S. history.
Wikipedia said:During and after the war, Madison reversed many of his positions. By 1815, he supported the creation of the second National Bank, a strong military, and a high tariff to protect the new factories opened during the war.
Why I didn't pick Madison.
“Having considered the bill…I am constrained by the insuperable difficulty I feel in reconciling this bill with the Constitution of the United States…The legislative powers vested in Congress are specified...in the…Constitution, and it does not appear that the power proposed to be exercised by the bill is among the enumerated powers…”
“Such a view of the Constitution would have the effect of giving to Congress a general power of legislation instead of the defined and limited one hitherto understood to belong to them, the terms ‘common defense and general welfare’ embracing every object and act within the purview of a legislative trust.”
He never became a federalist, but I don't look at petty classifications like that. His actions speak louder. A classical liberal never would have supported a central bank or protectionism.
He never became a federalist, but I don't look at petty classifications like that. His actions speak louder. A classical liberal never would have supported a central bank or protectionism.
Since you insist, here is an easy read about him. You might also find his writings in the federalist papers interesting, also.
James Madison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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