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The Republican Party, known retrospectively as the Democratic-Republican Party (also referred to by historians as the Jeffersonian Republican Party) [a], was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s.
The American Revolution: A History. New York: The Modern Library, 2002. ––––. Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815. Oxford University Press, 2009. Wright, Benjamin F. "The Philosopher of Jeffersonian Democracy." American Political Science Review 22#4 (1928): pp. 870–892. in JSTOR
The term "tertium quids" was first used in 1804 to refer to the moderates, especially a faction of the Republican Party that called itself the Society of Constitutional Republicans. [1] The faction gathered Federalist support and in 1805 re-elected Governor Thomas McKean , who had been elected by a united Republican Party in 1802 but had broken ...
Two major political parties in American history have used the term in their name [11] – the Democratic-Republican Party of Thomas Jefferson (1793–1824; also known as the Jeffersonian Republican Party) and the Republican Party (founded in 1854 and named after the Jeffersonian party). [12]
The First Party System was the political party system in the United States between roughly 1792 and 1824. [1] It featured two national parties competing for control of the presidency, Congress, and the states: the Federalist Party, created largely by Alexander Hamilton, and the rival Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican Party, formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, usually called at the ...
Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2], 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. [6] He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence .
According to President Biden, "MAGA Republicans" are a growing danger to American democracy and an extremist faction of a once-principled political party, a radical movement with unpopular ...
The transition between Adams and Jefferson represented the first transfer of the presidency between two different political parties in United States history, a and set the precedent for all subsequent inter-party transitions. [9] It was the first time in United States history that a president handed over the presidency to a political opponent. [8]