Democratic-Republican
Anti-Federalist political faction
Democratic-Republican refers to the first opposition political party in the United States, founded in the 1790s by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
The party opposed Federalist policies favoring centralized government and close ties with Britain, instead championing states' rights and agrarian interests.
It dominated American politics from 1800 until fracturing in the 1820s into factions that became the Democratic and Whig parties.
Absence of unjust constraint
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
- agrarianismDoctrine valuing farm life
- anti-monarchyAgainst royal rule
- civil-libertiesPersonal rights limiting government
egalitarianism · self-governance · constitutional · Jeffersonian · revolutionary · Enlightenment · consent · representation
Third American president
- MadisonWisconsin's governmental seat
- factionGroup within group
- coalitionTemporary alliance for action
- agrarianRelating to land cultivation
opposition · ticket · caucus · platform · partisan · planter · yeoman · electorate
Final eighteenth-century decade
Western European republic
- neutralityState of taking sides
- BritainIsland off northwestern Europe
- impressmentForced military recruitment
- embargoOfficial prohibition on trade
non-intervention · anti-British · alliance · diplomacy · trade · maritime · expansionism · Louisiana
liberty
Absence of unjust constraint
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
- agrarianismDoctrine valuing farm life
- anti-monarchyAgainst royal rule
civil-liberties · egalitarianism · self-governance · constitutional · Jeffersonian · revolutionary · Enlightenment · consent · representation · federalism
Jefferson
Third American president
agrarian · opposition · ticket · caucus · platform · partisan · planter · yeoman · electorate · campaign
1790s
Final eighteenth-century decade
France
Western European republic
- neutralityState of taking sides
- BritainIsland off northwestern Europe
- impressmentForced military recruitment
embargo · non-intervention · anti-British · alliance · diplomacy · trade · maritime · expansionism · Louisiana · isolationism
- Early RepublicGeorge Washington, Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Constitutional Convention
Democratic-RepublicanFederalist
Constitutional ratification supporter
Federalist Party · Anglophile · pro-British · monarchist · Whig
Democratic-RepublicanFederalist
Constitutional ratification supporter
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