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Compare And Contrast Federalists And Democratic Republicans

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Carter Gilliam
Rubendall
Period 6
17th February 2023

Federalists vs. Democratic Republicans
In the late 1700s two political parties were being born, one was the Federalists and the other democratic republicans. Each party had different political figures that led them to the Federalist leaders Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John Adams. The democratic-republican leaders were Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Many of the supporters of each party came from a certain region of the U.S. mainly federalist supporters were from the north while democratic republicans were from the south. I would vote for the Democratic republicans because Thomas Jefferson wanted to lower the voting qualification so common people could vote, also he had a very strict interpretation of the Constitution and he supported the freedom of speech and press.

The first reason I would vote for the democratic republicans is that Thomas Jefferson wanted common people to be involved in the government. I liked this because he wanted to lower the voting qualifications. The federalists didn’t feel the same way Hamilton thought that common people were ignorant and incapable of self-government. Hamilton wanted the rich to run the government because he thought they would have more knowledge. I think this …show more content…

He believed that the government could only do what the constitution said it could do. Hamilton on the other hand thought that the government has implied powers, powers which are not listed in the constitution. For example, Hamilton wanted a national bank but nowhere in the constitution did it say that you could do that. But Hamilton thought that the constitution gave them implied powers to let them create one. I think a strict interpretation is important because it won’t let the government make up some dumb rule or something that wasn’t in the

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