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How did disagreements over relative power of the national government, foreign relations, and economic policy lead to the emergence of political parties? (U4.1.3)
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Resource #1: Economic Policy
GLC 00891. Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History > //"The expediency of encouraging manufactures in the United States, which was not long since deemed very questionable, appears at this time to be pretty generally admitted.... //
 * [|Alexander Hamilton, Report on Manufactures, December 5, 1791]**

> //There still are, nevertheless, respectable patrons of opinions, unfriendly to the encouragement of manufactures. The following are, substantially, the arguments, by which these opinions are defended. //

> //In every country (say those who entertain them) Agriculture is the most beneficial and productive object of human industry. This position, generally, if not universally true, applies with peculiar emphasis to the United States, on account of their immense tracts of fertile territory, uninhabited and unimproved..." //

> //It might...be observed...that the labour employed in Agriculture is in a great measure periodical and occasional, depending on seasons, liable to various and long intermissions; while that occupied in manufactures is constant and regular, extending through the year.... //

> //Manufacturing establishments not only occasion a positive augmentation of the Produce and Revenue of the Society, but...they contribute to rendering them greater than they could possibly be, without such establishments. These circumstances are...additional employment to classes of the community not ordinarily engaged in the business.... The promoting of emigration from foreign Countries.... The furnishing greater scope for the diversity of talents and dispositions which discriminate men from each other.... The creating in some instances a new, and securing in all, a more certain and steady demand for the surplus produce of the soil.... //

Resource #2: Foreign Policy
GLC 04433. Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History > //"Sir I recieved through mr Warden the copy of your valuable work on the French revolution, for which I pray you to accept my thanks. That it's sale should have been suppressed is no matter of wonder with me. The friend of liberty is too feelingly manifested, not to give umbrage to it's enemies. We read in it, and weep over, the fatal errors which have lost to nations the present hope of liberty, and to reason the fairest prospect of it's final triumph over all imposture, civil & religious. The testimony of one who himself was an actor in the scenes he notes, and who knew the true mean between rational liberty, and the frenzies of demagogy, are a tribute to truth of inestimable value. The perusal of this work has given me new views of the causes of failure in a revolution of which I was a witness in it's early part, & then augured well of it. I had not means afterwards of observing it's progress but the public papers, & their information came thro channels too hostile to claim confidence. An acquaintance with many of the principal characters, & with their fate, furnished me grounds [struck: of] for conjectures, some of which you have confirmed, & some corrected. Shall we ever see as free & faithful a tableau of the subsequent acts of this deplorable tragedy? Is Reason to be ever amused with the hochets of physical sciences, in which she is indulged merely to divert her from solid speculations on the rights of man, and wrongs of his oppressors? It is impossible. The day of deliverance will come, altho' I shall not live to see it. The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason & information, and the examples of it's safe & wholsome guidance in government, which will be exhibited thro' the wide spread regions of the American continents, will obliterate in time the impressions left by the abortive experiment of France. With my prayers for the hastening of that auspicious date, & for the due effect of the lessons of your work to those who ought to profit by them, accept the assurances of my great esteem & respect. Th: Jefferson"//
 * Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Paganel, April 15, 1811 [|PDF of Letter] [|Description, Text, and Annotation]**

Resource #3: Washington's Concerns
The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799. John C. Fitzpatrick, Editor.--vol. 35 > //"To this I may add, and very truly, that, until within the last year or two ago, I had no conception that Parties would, or even could go, the length I have been witness to; nor did I believe until lately, that it was within the bonds of probability; hardly within those of possibility, that, while I was using my utmost exertions to establish a national character of our own, independent, as far as our obligations, and justice would permit, of every nation of the earth; and wished, by steering a steady course, to preserve this Country from the horrors of a desolating war, that I should be accused of being the enemy of one Nation, and subject to the influence of another; and to prove it, that every act of my administration would be tortured, and the grossest, and most insidious mis-representations of them be made (by giving one side only of a subject, and that too in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to a Nero; a notorious defaulter; or even to a common pick-pocket). But enough of this; I have already gone farther in the expression of my feelings, than I intended."//
 * [|Letter to Thomas Jefferson Addressing Factions]**