Modern Day Republicans Essay

Before the constitution was drafted in 1787, there were no definite political parties in the United States, however people knew their views and noticed how they differed from other peoples. However, these views weren’t very tightly held and weren’t as important to people as much as they are closely valued today. However, there are two major political parties in the United States today. These are the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, formerly known as the GOP, or Grand Ole Party. However, before these party names came to be, and around 1790, most of the people in the United States either considered themselves to be Anti-Federalists, who are essentially modern-day Democrats, or Federalists, who are modern-day Republicans. These two terms …show more content…
A few people who considered themselves to be Federalists were John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. These three men drafted what was called “The Federalist Papers.” These papers pulled together their thoughts about wanting to ratify and adopt the Constitution of the United States, and went on to describe how the United States was unstable and the only way to make it stronger and more secure was to give all of the power to the Government and have a strong central government to excite the economy, essentially like Great Britain. The Anti-Federalists joined together with their ideals of limited government to create the Democratic-Republicans. The many people in this party wanted more out of a name then just something that was just going to oppose the Federalist point of view, hence “Democratic-Republicans” instead of the “Anti-Federalists.” The Democratic-Republicans eventually won out the argument between a strong central government and individual state rights and the Democratic-Republican Party began to crumble and divide again into two separate “parties” with slightly differing