The Republican

Alien & Sedition Acts were unconstitutional because newspaper editors and many others were arrested for practicing their freedom of speech, there was a great deal of debate between the Federalists and the Jeffersonian Republicans because the laws weakened the Democratic-Republican…

Did you know a president that is a Democratic-Republican listens to the public’s opinions and to what they want? A president that is a Federalist will not be able to run the country if he doesn’t give the people a say in what they want. Unlike Federalists, the Democratic-Republican party will assure that we have an excellent leader, that our laws are fair to our rights, and they give power to state governments instead of one central government. In order to run for president, you must be a…

In devising the Constitution for the new government, the founders were too confident that the political parties would play no formal role in the government. Thus, they wrote no word in the Constitution regarding the political parties. For the initial eight years of the America’s presence, George Washington, the first America’s President, had brought a unifying and harmony vicinity in the country. In a few years after 1789, still, he was able to practice the unbiased leadership on the new…

Anti-Federalists believed that the Constitution was giving the federal government too much power and that state legislatures should have most of the power. These people began calling themselves Democratic-Republicans and interpreted the Constitution strictly to execute their ideals of a weaker…

”The Sniper” was published during the Irish civil war (January 1923) by the republican Liam O’Flaherty. It takes place as night falls in Dublin. Shots eccho. A young Republican sniper lies on a rooftop. He lights a cigarette; risks revealing himself. Instantantly, a bullet hits the parapet, behind which he hides. A car approaches and halts down the street. A woman appears from a side-street. She speaks with the driver and points to the sniper. Without thinking, he shoots the driver, and the…

interpretations is what shaped the two first political parties, the Federalists, and the Democratic-Republicans. The Federalist based their principles off of Hamilton’s ideology. They believed that power should not be trusted in the common man, the wealthy elite should support the government more so than the common man, and America need to become an economic powerhouse in order to succeed. The Democratic-Republicans believed the opposite. They believed in states rights, in opposition to the…

Democratic-Republicans. The main reason for the rise of political parties during the 1790s was because each of the parties favored different political and economical reforms needed as a new, developing country. Alexander Hamilton led the Federalists and they favored a loose interpretation of the Constitution, while Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic-Republican Party favored strict interpretation. The Federalists wanted to create a national economy by creating…

the End of the Republican Party? By Robert Applegate IV AS July draws closer and closer,…

a rise in prices for former Native American lands, as well as tariff against cheap British goods, which began to drive a rift in between the only active political party, the Democratic-Republicans. Although unified in their dislike of the Federalist party and mistrust of large government, The Democratic-Republican party had grown heavily divided between the more conservative southerners, who favored slavery and took an off handed approach to the federal governments involvement, and the…

The election of 1800 was a bitter one: there was constant slandering from both the federalist and the democratic-republican sides, but ultimately Jefferson won. In Thomas Jefferson: Political Compromiser, Morton Borden analyzes Jefferson’s presidency and ideals to question how he achieved so much success: did Jefferson simply adapt to gain support? During his presidency, Jefferson often stuck to his party roots. However, Jefferson also enacted very impartial, federalist policies that underscored…