[Lee'sGhost]

You can be proud of the Father of Federalism is you want, I’ll pass.

[agrarianlady]

I am extraordinarily proud of James Madison, and I'm proud to be a Republican descended from Hamilton. The modern Democrats have swung violently far away from the Jefferson/Jacksonian Democrats, but both of those men had many things wrong with their ideas.

The Industrial Revolution needed a capitalist system, and agrarians like Jefferson would have held us back, not to mention his dependence on slavery for his agrarianism. Jackson's mistrust of the central banking system led to a phenomenal collapse in the economy, and Jefferson did the same thing with tariffs.

I can only encourage you to read this.

Abraham Lincoln or the Progressives: Who was the real father of big government?