Democratic-Republicanism Blooms: 1801–5
The Federalist Party's defeat in the 1800 presidential election marked the beginning of the party's decline. America's first preside...
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Jeffersonian Republican Party
Jeffersonian (or Madisonian) Republicans appeared within three years of the inauguration of the federal Constitution, as Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and lesser figur...
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To say that the Jeffersonian Republicans had "out federalized" the Federalists by 1817 or at all, wouldn't be entirely true. Yes, there were overlapping views between the two sides over time, but mor...
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Opposing the politics of the National Democrats, Jacksonian Democrats formed themselves to become a unique group to be the justifiable law enforcers of the United States of America. The Jacksonians br...
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The Democratic Republicans, of the early 1800's were by and large characterized as strict constructionist in respect to the Constitution, where as the Federalist exemplify more of a broad construction...
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Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were adversaries competing for their beliefs in the government. Their rivalry was not only political, but also personal. The bitter competition between the two ...
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