[thatdewd]

Hamilton was a Nationalist just like Madison and even Jefferson were during the early 1780s. Just like Washington and Jay and Marshall and all the greatest of the Founders always were.

Your use of the word is extremely suspect, and I have no doubt that you mean something different by it than most. Hamilton was a nationalist, yes. Madison was earlier, but then was not, because hearing people like Hamilton talk about it scared the crap out of him. Whatever nationalist ideas Washington had were satisfied by the limited federal government established under the Constitution, he said so. Jefferson a nationalist? Oh, please...you should be ashamed for saying such a thing.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Sure Jefferson was a nationalist in the 1780s while in Congress. He was so much one that he even proposed not allowing new states admission into the Union if they wanted slavery. He also wrote the Ordinance banning slavery in the Northwest Territories.

He and Madison split from Hamilton and Washington because of their inability to understand economics and finance more than disagreements about the federal Union. All totally agreed that the Union must be preserved at all costs and that without it the States were doomed.