In1824 there was a realignment after a controversial election gave John Quincy Adams the presidency. For one, Adams led a more centrist wing of the Democratic Republicans which had absorbed most of ...

Because the Sedition Act was used to silence critical media, historians and free press advocates tend to take a dim view of it. Scholars have described the Alien and Sedition Acts as “ reprehensible , ...

Largely influenced by the ideas of Alexander Hamilton, the Federalists succeeded in convincing the Washington administration to assume national and state debts, pass tax laws, and create a central ...

The Anti-Federalists were no monolith. Patrick Henry thundered against tyranny, George Mason insisted on a Bill of Rights, but lesser-known figures like Brutus, Federal Farmer, and Cato ...

The roots of political parties in the US can be traced to early disagreements over crucial issues confronting the new ...

Democratic Party History. The Democratic party is the oldest existing political party in America. Democrats have won 19 of 42 presidential elections since the party first ran a pr ...

While many who had criticized Jefferson forgot their misgivings in the wake of the sale, New England Federalists grew even more worried. They feared that the deal would swing power even more ...

In the fractious debates of 1787-88, as the ink dried on a proposed Constitution, a cadre of skeptics—now dubbed Anti-Federalists—peered through the haze of revolutionary optimism to glimpse a ...