Question

Compare and contrast the views of the federalists party and the democratic republican party

Answer 1

The Federalist Party was in service between 1798 and 1801, and the Democratic-Republican Party was in service between 1792 and 1798.

The Federalist Party were proponents of a strong, centralized national government and a strong executive branch. Federalists did not support a Bill of Rights, supported an economy based on agriculture, believed that the Constitution was open to interpretation, and asserted that the government had the right to adopt additional powers. In foreign policy, Federalists sided with the British and opposed the French Revolution. Federalists supported Alexander Hamilton.

The Democratic-Republican Party were in support of a weak, centralized government fearing that a strong central government would lead to tyranny. The DR Party supported the Bill of Rights to supplement the Constitution in order to support the people. They believed the Constitution was a strict document that limited the federal government's ability to adopt additional powers.  The DRP often aligned itself with France and admired the French's Revolution.