President Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson: The United States' third President; Democratic Republican, philosopher, agrarian, plantation owner, politician. One of his more famous quotes comes from his First Inaugural Address "We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists." In that respect, though he was a very great man, I believe in that respect that he is wrong.
During the early years of American democracy there was no "grey area" between the party lines. If you were a Federalist you were a hardcore believer in your ideas and thought that nothing a Democratic Republican had to say was worth the time to listen to, and by the same token that's the way the Republicans thought as well. Often times Federalists and Republicans had to try to see eye-to-eye in Congress and compromise some of their views so that some sort of bills could be passed. But for the most part if one was a Republican, they were Republican.
It seems also that Jefferson didn't take this to heart either. He......
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