The Washington administration was the first to bring together in the cabinet of the United States, the Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and the Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton. Jefferson and Hamilton began to take different views when the government began to address the issue of the old war debts and the worthless paper money left over from the days of the Confederation. Hamilton suggested that the government should create the Bank of the United …showed first 75 words of 1840 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1840 total…could not have anticipated the details to deal with different crises, and that a wide interpretation of the Constitution was necessary in order to carry out the government’s duties. The Hamiltonian views were much more effective in dealing with the government. The Hamiltonian broad interpretation ensured that the Constitution is not considered as a 200 year old body of rigid and inflexible laws, that make no room for improvement in an ever changing American society.