Please elaborate.
Aside: Jefferson and Hamilton were once in a room together in which the former had portraits on the wall of Locke, Bacon, and Newton. Jefferson remarked that they were the three greatest men who had ever lived. Hamilton disagreed, stating that the greatest man who ever lived was Julius Caesar.
Someone once described Hamilton's politics as "monarchy without the king". Maybe the "without" part was based on a misunderstanding!
>>Jefferson became president (as opposed to Burr) due to the efforts of Hamilton!
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>Please elaborate.
According to the unamended Constitution, the runner-up for President in the elections was the winner for the vice-President position. In that election Jefferson and Burr were tied in the electoral votes, so the election went down to the House (as per procedure); in the House what was needed to get president was a win of nine states. Jefferson only took 8 of them in the 1st through 35th rounds-of-voting (thus failing to win the Presidency). Hamilton, however, during this time encouraged Representatives to vote for Jefferson because he considered Burr to be less dangerous than Jefferson.
Mostly, Hamilton hated John Adams. The Ross Perot of his day (except smarter).