Jefferson and Madison would create the Democratic-Republican political party to be a voice for the common man against the elite Federalist party. The two men fought laws and policies enacted by Washington and Adams when they believed they violated the Constitution and the rights established by the Bill of Rights.
One example of this was Jefferson's writing of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in regard to the Whiskey Tax. Though written anonymously, he suggest the states (the people) were allowed to nullify, or ignore, federal laws that the people did not agree with. He suggest it was in the rights of the people to refuse to pay the whiskey tax.
Jefferson and Madison were both outspoken about their disagreement with the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts by John Adams. Jefferson would overturn the acts after becoming the third president of the US. Madison also stood against John Adams in regard to the "midnight-appointments" which was an expansion of the federal court system. Madison refused to issue the confirmations of the judges causing one to take Madison to court in the famous case, Marbury v. Madison.
Maybe C. But what do you think?
It was primarily "James Madison" who tried to keep tempers under control during the Constitutional Convention, since he was very much in favor of the ratification of the Constitution.
Answer:
A. Reactionary
Explanation:
Loyalists (also called <em>Tories, Royalists</em>, and <em>King's Men</em>) were American colonists who remained loyal to the British Empire during the American Revolutionary War. They opposed all radical change. Their opponents were the Patriots, who supported the American fight for independence.
Loyalist can be described as reactionaries. Reactionaries are people who want to return to a previous political state of society that they believe possessed positive characteristics that are absent in the current society. Loyalists refused to accept the possibility of America becoming independent, thinking that its position under the British rule was better than its independence. That's what made them reactionaries.
