On the other hand, Jefferson disagreed with Hamilton and thought the constitution should be strictly interpreted. He thought Hamilton’s national bank was unconstitutional. He believed that “the political economists of Europe have established it as a principle that every state should endeavour to manufacture for itself: and this principle, like many others, we transfer to America, without calculating the difference of circumstance which should often produce a difference of result… we have an immensity of land courting the industry of the husbandman. Is it best then that all our citizens should be employed in its improvement, or that one half should be called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other? Those
