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The '''Democratic-Republican Party''', also known as the '''Jeffersonian Republican Party''', was
There was no single, official name for the party; contemporaries usually identified themselves as [[Republicanism|"Republicans"]]. Scholars use "Democratic-Republicans" and "Jeffersonian Republicans" to distinguish Jefferson's Republican Party from the modern [[History of the United States Republican Party |Republican Party]], which was founded in 1854. The Democratic-Republican Party was the dominant political party in the United States from 1800 to 1824, when it split into competing factions.
Jefferson formed the party to oppose the economic and foreign policies of the [[Federalist Party|Federalists]], a party created a year or so earlier by Treasury Secretary [[Alexander Hamilton]]. The party opposed the [[Jay Treaty]] of 1794 with Britain (then at war with France) and supported good relations with [[France]] before 1801. The party insisted on a [[strict construction]] of the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]], and denounced many of Hamilton's proposals (especially the [[First Bank of the United States|national bank]]) as unconstitutional. The party favored [[states' rights]] and the primacy of the [[Yeoman#Yeoman Farmers|yeoman farmer]] over bankers, industrialists, merchants, and other monied interests.
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