My comments are due to his lefelong opposition to Jefferson. Jefferson had a thorough understanding of liberty and the nobler aspects of American freedom, while Hamilton seemed to me to act in self interest at the expense of the free individual. Just my opinion, but I'm not ignorant.
I would not say you are ignorant in general but if that is your view of the early Founders you need to research them much more extensively.
Jefferson was one of the greatest hypocrits who ever held the presidency. His administration was a miserable failure except for having blundered into the Louisiana Purchase. His character was such that George Washington would not speak his name after he retired to Mount Vernon. Because of the treachery worked against the administration even while still Sec of State.
Hamilton on the other hand was perhaps the most important founder after Washington whose chief lietenant he was for almost twenty years. Virtually his entire adult life was devoted to the winning of REAL freedom for this nation as opposed to the pie-in-the-sky ideals of Jefferson. Hamilton was the greatest lawyer of his day and would have become fabulously wealthy had he not devoted the prime working years to the REvolution and creation of the federal government.
His life is a vast treasure chest of incredible acts and deeds and he was as great a hero as our nation has ever been blessed with.
Regarding Thomas Jefferson, I have read that although his original political philosophy was derived from the English Whig tradition, he became converted while in France, at least to some degree, to the French Rationalism in which government makes top down decisions for the benefit of its citizens and which also embraced egalitarianism. Rationalism is at the root of socialism, not that Jefferson was a socialist, I don't think.
I'm not exactly a scholar on this subject, perhaps someone else can let me know whether or not I have the right of this.