First, one of Jefferson's main beliefs was that the government should promote the general welfare of the entire nation as stated in the preamble of the Constitution. Observing that the "'The natural progress of things is for the government to gain ground and for liberty to yield'" (Bender 78), Jefferson realized that the powers given the national government by the Constitution needed to be interpreted narrowly and placed his trust in the land and the people who farmed it. He believed that the purpose of government was to assure the freedom of its individual citizens. If the government wasn't given much power, then a majority of the people who were essentially the lower class and the farmers could benefit from the spread of powers among federal, state, and local levels of governm

Second, Jefferson was right when he argued that funding should be equal and beneficial for the entire nation, not only profit the wealthy and large business. Jefferson, the elder son of a Virginia planter, did not believe that the federal government should pay off the state debts because the smaller states that still hadn't paid off their debts from the war would be relieved of a major burden while the larger states like Virginia received nothing. He wanted the states to keep as much authority as possible in dealing with money so that the national government would not be handling all the money and making unfair decisions about the individual states. Concerning the excise taxes, Jefferson was correct when he argued that the whiskey tax targeted the backcountry farmers because they were the only people making the product. He believed an economic burden such as a whiskey tax should not be placed on the farmers who could not pay the tax easily but that it should also be distributed to the upper class who possessed most of the wealth. Jefferson also had reason to oppose the protective tariff because it forced the common people to buy American products for a high price but still lower than the price the tariff put on British imports simply to stimulate the American economy. Jefferson observed that the lower classes would be severely hurt by

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