In 1800, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, both part of the Democratic-Republican party, received 73 electoral votes. (Adams got 65).The two main political parties were the Federalist Party and the Democratic-Republican Party.They disagreed savagely on the role of government in people's lives and of the United States..They were enemies.The rift between Hamilton and Burr, however, was a personal issue. For whatever reason, the two men detested each other personally, a scorn that went far beyond the political disagreements that Hamilton and Jefferson had. And so when Hamilton saw that Burr had a chance of becoming President, he jumped in to stop it from happening. Choosing to argue for the election of one political rival over another, Hamilton
