Which sentence or phrase from the selection best supports the author’s claim that Jefferson’s idea of America was not practical? Jefferson didn’t grasp the levers of power with quite the same glee as Hamilton, who had no ideological inhibitions about shoring up federal power.

A master of subtle, artful indirection, he was able to marshal his forces without divulging his generalship.

Jefferson retained the landed gentry’s disdain for the vulgar realities of trade, commerce and finance.

Jefferson was aghast at what he construed as a breach of the Constitution and a perilous expansion of federal power.