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Why did Jefferson believe that Hamilton’s economic ideas were a threat to democracy?

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Thomas Jefferson opposed Alexander Hamilton's financial plan because he thought it was too expensive, that it gave too much power to the federal government, and because he favored a vision of America as a nation of small farmers, not industrial workers.

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a. jefferson felt democracy was best protected by those who owned and worked the land.

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