USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -As a trusted member of President Washington’s first cabinet, Hamilton led the Department of the Treasury. He envisioned a central government led by an energetic president, a strong national defense, and an industrial economy.

Detailed explanation-2: -At the inauguration of the constitutional government in 1789 Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), George Washington’s former military aide and a renowned financier, was appointed the first Secretary of the Treasury and thus he became the architect of the structure of the Department.

Detailed explanation-3: -Best type of government: Hamilton was a strong supporter of a powerful central or federal government. His belief was that a governmental power should be concentrated in the hands of those few men who had the talent and intelligence to govern properly for the good of all the people.

Detailed explanation-4: -In selecting the four members of his first cabinet-Thomas Jefferson as secretary of state, Alexander Hamilton as secretary of treasury, Henry Knox as secretary of war, and Edmund Randolph as attorney general-Washington balanced the two parties evenly.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hamilton wanted the federal government to have greater power than state governments. A strong federal government, he argued, was needed to increase commerce. It would also be able to restrain mob violence like that of the Whiskey Rebellion.