The people had registered their dismay with a long litany of unpopular Federalist actions: the Jay Treaty, the Alien and Sedition Acts, the truculent policy toward France, the vast army being formed under Hamilton and the taxes levied to support it. The 1800 elections revealed, for the first time, the powerful centrist pull of American politics-the electorate's tendency to rein in anything perceived as extreme."
( Ron Chernow )
[ Alexander Hamilton ]
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