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Democratic-Republican Party
political party, United States
Also known as: Jeffersonian Republicans
Rembrandt Peale: Thomas Jefferson
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History & Society
- Originally (1792–98):
- Republican Party
- Date:
- c. 1791 - c. 1825
- Areas Of Involvement:
- states’ rights
- Related People:
- Thomas Jefferson
- John Quincy Adams
- Henry Clay
- James Madison
- James Monroe
Democratic-Republican Party, first opposition political party in the United States. Organized in 1792 as the Republican Party, its members held power nationally between 1801 and 1825. It was the direct antecedent of the present Democratic Party. During the two administrations of Pres. George Washington (1789–97), many former Anti-Federalists—who had resisted adoption of the new federal Constitution (1787)—began to unite in opposition to the fiscal program of Alexander Hamilton, secretary of the treasury. After Hamilton and other proponents of a strong central government and a loose interpretation of the Constitution formed the Federalist Party in 1791, those who favoured states’ rights ...(100 of 683 words)