America’s First Cabinet
Michael Boldin, host of the Tenth Amendment Center’s “Path to Liberty,” harkens back to President George Washington’s first cabinet and the process of how it all went down at the beginning of government under the Constitution.
Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton were the most outspoken and prominent members of the cabinet, along with Edmund Randolph and Henry Knox.
Boldin explains that despite being comprised of only four statesmen, the group experienced major ideological clashes, with issues such as the national debt and the first national bank, which created problems so deep that it helped give rise to America’s first two-party system. More with Boldin.
