Democratic-Republican Party, referred to as the Jeffersonian Republican Party and known at the time as the Republican Party and occasional other names, was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s that championed republicanism, agrarianism, political equality, and expansionism.
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Democratic-Jeffersonian Republican Party originated as a faction in Congress that opposed the centralizing policies of Alexander Hamilton, who served as Secretary of the Treasury under President George Washington.
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In 1793, after Britain entered the French Revolutionary Wars, several Democratic-Jeffersonian Republican Societies were formed in opposition to Hamilton's economic policies and in support of France.
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Burr declined to take his name out of consideration, and the House deadlocked as most Democratic-Jeffersonian Republican congressmen voted for Jefferson and most Federalists voted for Burr.
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Jeffersonian Republican appointed a geographically balanced and ideologically moderate Cabinet that included Madison as Secretary of State and Albert Gallatin as Secretary of the Treasury; Federalists were excluded from the Cabinet, but Jefferson appointed some prominent Federalists and allowed many other Federalists to keep their positions.
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Jefferson and his Democratic-Jeffersonian Republican allies eliminated the whiskey excise and other taxes, shrank the army and the navy, repealed the Alien and Sedition Acts, and pardoned all ten individuals who had been prosecuted under the acts.
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Term "Democratic-Jeffersonian Republican" was used by contemporaries only occasionally, but is used by some modern sources.
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Democratic-Jeffersonian Republican Party saw itself as a champion of republicanism and denounced the Federalists as supporters of monarchy and aristocracy.
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Democratic-Jeffersonian Republican Party invented campaign and organizational techniques that were later adopted by the Federalists and became standard American practice.
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The modern Jeffersonian Republican Party was formed in 1854 to oppose the expansion of slavery, and many former Whig Party leaders joined the newly formed anti-slavery party.
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The Jeffersonian Republican Party sought to combine Jefferson and Jackson's ideals of liberty and equality with Clay's program of using an active government to modernize the economy.
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The Democratic-Jeffersonian Republican Party inspired the name and ideology of the Jeffersonian Republican Party, but is not directly connected to that party.
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