Democratic-Republicans

The democratic-republican parties were one of the first two American political parties. This group was formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790's. They favored states rights and believed farmers were more important than industrialists. And he wanted the country to become self sufficient. The system stressed liberty, inalienable rights, and to promote the common good. Agrarianism was also one of its ideologies. It had a big impact because the party dominated congress and most of state government outside of New England. It selected presidential candidates. The party had a huge amount of power in congress. Three US presidents were elected following a process that selected them as a national nominee of the Republican party. Among them was Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe. The Democratic-republican party was good for the country because it wanted to promote the common wealth of people, and support their rights. They were Anti-federalist which meant that they wanted the central government to have less power, so that it wont become corrupt and abuse any power of the people. We like this party because it will secure humans rights and make sure that the government doesn't gain to much power. They also believed in states rights, which meant the US government had the power, instead of the federal government.