Four American traditions

From Puritans and Scots-Irish by Arnold Kling and subheaded "America's oldest split, and how it applies today."  He is referencing four traditional American views about government, as described by Walter Russell Mead - Puritanism, Jacksonian, Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian.  

For Walter Russell Mead, in Special Providence, the Puritans were Wilsonian in foreign policy, wanting to remake the world along moral lines. The Scotch-Irish were Jacksonian, wanting to be left alone, and ready to fight if attacked. In addition to those two traditions, there were Hamiltonians, wanting a world of freedom of the seas and trade. And there were the Jeffersonians, wanting government to keep a low profile, both domestically and internationally. Mead describes American foreign policy as a fortunate blend of these four traditions. I would describe myself as 50 percent Jeffersonian, 30 percent Hamiltonian, 15 percent Jacksonian, and 5 percent Wilsonian.

Plenty to quibble with in defining the organizing principles of Puritan (Wilsonian), Hamiltonian, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian (Scotch-Irish) thought but it is a useful model.  My preferred descriptors are:

Puritan - The world is made through a community's moral choices.  

Jacksonian - The world is real and hard and based on individual freedoms protected, if necessary, through violence.

Jeffersonian - The world is made better by small government doing its narrow remit well.  

Hamiltonian - The world is improved through property and trade and government must build the institutions to protect property and enable trade.

These traditions are not completely incompatible with one another but they reinforce different strands of emphasis.  Puritanism is probably the one strand with the least overlap with the remaining three.  Puritanism turned out not to be an effective model but it remains strongly embedded in our cultural DNA.  

For any given issue, you try via Classical Liberal emphasis on argument, evidence, logic and reason, to arrive at a workable model of what are true outcomes and true causes but you then still have the next layer of decision making.  For any condition, what are the Puritan, Jacksonian, Jeffersonian, and Hamiltonian perspectives?  And what are the trade-offs associated with each of the models?