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For 12 years after George Washington's inauguration, the infant
federal government had been directed by a Hamiltonian design for
national greatness. The election of
Thomas Jefferson in 1800
brought a new era of Jeffersonian democracy. Jefferson's
administration was the first to be dominated by the Jeffersonian
ideology of the Declaration of Independence. Jeffersonian
democracy was a new form of government, a new way of thinking,
and a new way of acting.