Dbq Essay On Political Parties

A political party is an organization of people which seeks to achieve goals common to its members through the acquisition and exercise of political power. In present times it’s mostly associated with the fight for votes and debates between Democrats and Republicans. Several years ago though when political parties did not exist, many were angry that they did not. Although people like George Washington fear that it would split the nation apart and weaken public support of the new constitution, . In document 4, the excerpt from “The Farewell Address”, George Washington opposed to political parties because “ It agitates the community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one party against another; foments[stirs up]……. riots and insurrections.” The political parties had begun and rapidly …show more content…
In document 3 we see how Jefferson feels about this, he describes it as “Hellish”, this shows his disapproval of it.He believed that was one of the causes to divide America. This is proof of how they disagreed economically. Jefferson also expressed in document 1,that he believed that “Hamilton was not only a monarchist, but [in support] of a monarchy [based upon] corruption”. This states how Jefferson had view the government differently than Hamilton. The Federal Congressman John Allen, a Federalist, had supported the Sedition Act because as said in document 6 “ The freedom of the press and opinions was never understood to give the right of publishing falsehoods and slanders, nor of exciting sedition,insurrection and slaughter”. They believed that it was a good thing to have because it was necessary to national security. Jefferson and his supporters believed that it was unreasonable because as said in document 7 “The freedom of the press…means total exemption of the press from legislative control and consequently the sedition