Jack Lew nears decision to keep Hamilton on front of $10 bill, put a woman on the $20

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52. So we keep a person who OPPOSED Democracy, but get rid of one who did support rule by the people

People may not like Jackson, but he did what the people of his time period wanted. Jackson supported the people and opposed the banks. Hamilton supported the banks and opposed the people. Both owned slaves, (Jackson a lot more then Hamilton) but it was Hamilton whose banks held mortgages on slaves.

Yes, Jackson had told the Civilized tribes to move west, for the troops he had available to enforce the Supreme Court's decision had been promised by their home states the lands those tribes were on when Jackson advised them to move (Technically the move was an ORDER by CONGRESS and was enforced by Van Buren when Van Buren succeeded Jackson as President). Only part of the Cherokees listen to Jackson (and that was via Sam Houston) and that part suffered little. The problem the majority of the Tribe waited till the Georgia Militia showed up to remove them. The Regular US Army was assigned the task of transporting the tribes west, but do to the speed of the Removal by the North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee Militia, the Regular US Army had only the supply to move 1/5th of the tribes (The plan was to move the tribes in five movements, but do to the demand for the lands, the tribes all had to go in one movement).

Jackson blamed the Tribes themselves for the trail of tears, they waited to long to move.

AS to Hamilton, he was the author of the excise tax on whiskey, that lead to the Whiskey rebellion of the early 1790s. It would have been a blood bath, except Yellow Fever hit Philadelphia in the Summer of 1791, and Congress did not allocated any money to put down the rebellion till 1793. By 1793 the local leaders had managed to calm down the residents of Western Pennsylvania so when Washington did lead the Army to Pittsburgh in 1793, they was little fighting (Had the invasion occurred in 1792, it would have lead to massive bloodshed). The Whiskey Rebellion was organized through the Western Pennsylvania Militia (Which by law every male between the ages of 18 and 45 was a member of at the time). Do to Hamilton's failure to open up New Orleans to US Trade, the only real trade good Western Pennsylvania had in the 1790s was Whiskey, and given the lack of any form of money, whiskey was also used as money in Western Pennsylvania. Thus was far as the rebels were concern Hamilton was taxing money, not wealth or even items, with his tax on whiskey. The Whiskey tax in effect was if you had $10 in cash, you owned the Government a Dollar in tax, but if you owned $100,000 in land or any other type of property, you did not have to pay anything. This had been common in the Colonial era, thus Hamilton knew what he was doing when he passed the Whiskey tax, but given most people on the frontier supported Jefferson, Hamilton did not care is his tax on whiskey was unpopular (Until it caused open rebellion, which could not be suppressed in 1792, by 1793 suppression of that rebellion was important to Hamilton, even at the cost of NOT enforcing the Whiskey tax, which is one of the things Hamilton did in 1792-1793 period).

Hamiltons view on the US GOvernment:

During the convention, Hamilton constructed a draft for the Constitution based on the convention debates, but he never presented it. This draft had most of the features of the actual Constitution. In this draft, the Senate was to be elected in proportion to the population, being two-fifths the size of the House, and the President and Senators were to be elected through complex multistage elections, in which chosen electors would elect smaller bodies of electors; they would hold office for life, but were removable for misconduct. The President would have an absolute veto. The Supreme Court was to have immediate jurisdiction over all law suits involving the United States, and state governors were to be appointed by the federal government

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton#cite_note-67

Sorry, Yes, Jackson held slaves and ordered the removal of First Americans, but it was Hamilton that wanted a rule by the Elite of the US not the people, and who preferred the Banks having power not the people.