Looking for information in newspapers, magazines, and reference materials and judging its accuracy voting in local, state, and national elections participating in a political discussion trying to persuade someone to vote a certain way signing a petition wearing a button or putting a sticker on the car writing letters to elected representatives contributing money to a party or candidate attending meetings to gain information, discuss issues, or lend support campaigning for a candidate lobbying for laws that are of special interest demonstrating through marches, boycotts, sit-ins, or other forms of protest serving as a juror running for office holding public office serving the country through military or other service disobeying laws and taking the consequences to demonstrate that a law or policy is unjust
In favor of stronger state governments, the Democratic-Republicans preferred a smaller federal government. They believed in a strict interpretation of the Law: they did not expressly support the notion that the Federal Government was powerless to do anything in the Constitution.
