Anti-Administration Party
Anti-Administration Party (1789–1792), also known as Anti-Federalists , was the unofficial name of a political faction that spoke out against the policies of the American Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton under the first President George Washington . It was not an organized party, but a loose political movement in opposition to the government of the Pro-Administration Party , which later became the Federalist Party . Most of the supporters of this faction were anti- federalists when the constitution of the United States was ratified and opposed to the new state order. After Thomas Jefferson had taken over the leadership of the opposition to Hamilton in 1791/1792, the Anti-Administration Party developed into the Democratic-Republican Party . Founded in 1792 by Jefferson and James Madison, it sympathized with the French Revolution , prioritized agriculture over the expanding industry, emphasized state rights in the United States' political system, and opposed the establishment of the First Bank of the United States .
Individual evidence
- ^ Parties in Early Congress , Senate website, accessed Oct. 14, 2016
- ^ Jeffrey Kraus: Democratic Republican Party. In: Kenneth F. Warren (Ed.): Encyclopedia of US Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior (= Volume 1). SAGE, Los Angeles 2008, ISBN 978-1-4129-5489-1 , pp. 176f .; here: p. 176.