USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Many believe that Jefferson favored a weak executive because he sought a limited national government. The two ideas, however, need not conflict. Jefferson favored a national government of limited constitutional powers balanced by states that retained significant sovereignty.

Detailed explanation-2: -During his two terms in office, Jefferson sought to stay true to his principles of a weak national government by cutting the federal budget and taxes, while still reducing the national debt.

Detailed explanation-3: -Best Type of Government: Because he believed in the ability of people to govern themselves, Jefferson favored giving more power to state governments. Jefferson felt that government power should not be concentrated in one central or federal government, but should be spread out among the individual states as well.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the early 1790s, Jefferson, who favored strong state and local government, co-founded the Democratic-Republican Party to oppose Hamilton’s Federalist Party, which advocated for a strong national government with broad powers over the economy.

Detailed explanation-5: -Jefferson’s goal was, indeed, to create a new kind of government, a Republican government wholly unlike the centralized, corrupt, patronage-ridden one against which Americans had rebelled in 1776.