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The Constitution of the United States of America allows for an enduring political debate from all different types of views, such as Thomas Jefferson’s anti-federalist side and the side of Alexander Hamilton as a federalist. On the federalist side, they believe that government should be divided between a central authority and constituent political units. Anti-federalists, on the other hand, believe that the central government should have equal or lesser power than the state governments. Seeing as these two views are complete opposites, conflict was bound to happen. The biggest issues between these two were about the funding of our debts, the Bank of the United States, the French Revolution, the Protective Tariff, and the Whiskey Excise Tax. With the Bank of the U.S., the federalists and anti-federalists argued about what kind of bank it should be and once that is established, how it would help to fund the debts of America. The French Revolution was somewhat of a role model to the American Revolution. Jefferson wrote the French Constitution and was the ambassador of France so he knew what was best for a country as a whole. He argued with Hamilton that the United States of America should not be ruled by someone like the King and Queen of France because then everything will go right back to where it started. There were many sides to the Constitution of America, but the main sides back when the United States was first created were the federalist and anti-federalists.