2006-10-27 21:06:29 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The answer all are given is essentially correct. But there is some confusion about the name.
In fact, Jefferson and Madison and those who banded with them almost always called themselves simply "Republicans". (This helps explain Jefferson's famous line in his first inaugural, "We are all federalists, we are all republicans.")
"Democratic-Republican" was mainly used as the name of some "Democratic-Republican societies that formed separately in the 1790s (though most of them ended up supporting Jefferson), and by CRITICS of Jefferson's party. (In the 1790s the word "democratic" was tainted for many by its association with the French Revolution, which some, like Jefferson had supported in for some time.)
The habit of historians to refer to Jefferson's party as "Democratic-Republicans" is mostly driven by the desire to distinguish them from the modern day Republican Party founded in the 1850s and perhaps also to suggest their connection to the later Democratic Party. This party was founded in 1828 --after the 1824 election shattered the Republican party -- by Jackson and his supporters, but considered by them to be heirs of Jefferson. Of course, their opponents had ALSO been Republicans [at first called "National Republicans"] and they soon coalesced into a new "Whig" Party.
The other name historians often use is "Jeffersonian Republicans", something they never called themselves, but which is again handy to clearly identify them
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2006-10-31 15:16:59 · answer #1 · answered by bruhaha 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Political Party Of Thomas Jefferson
2016-10-21 05:30:41 · answer #2 · answered by ree 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Jefferson belonged to and founded the Democratic-Republican Party, which was in opposition to the Federalist Party founded by Alexander Hamilton.
2006-10-28 15:27:35 · answer #3 · answered by Daniel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say that Thomas Jefferson would without a doubt be an independent. There is no way he would condone the way either party has been acting in the last 60 to 70 years.
2016-03-17 05:50:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Co-founder of the Democratic-Republican Party & Hence belonged to the Democratic-Republican Party
"With James Madison he founded the Democratic-Republican Party in 1792."
Thus as he was not the only founder, he is a co-founder
2006-10-27 22:46:02 · answer #5 · answered by Mike J 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Democratic-Republicans. It was the first opposition party.
2006-10-27 21:09:30 · answer #6 · answered by Jim P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he founded the democratic party
2006-10-27 21:08:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋