#democratic-republicans

[mimimouseeeee]

Washington: Alright, no more talking about the Democratic-Republicans.

Hamilton: You told me to get it out of my system!

Washington: I HAD NO IDEA HOW MUCH WAS IN YOUR SYSTEM!

[filesunderwater]

*when some political crisis occurs to TJ*

Madison: So our strategy is xxxx you gotta listen to me this is serious. now do as you should for our republican cause!!

Monroe: I know we r gonna go through i have confidence in you sir. i'm always here for you if you need to talk or cry

[catchperfectamericanpresidents]

New York,1800:

Federalist 1: What if the Jeffersonians storm the capitol with guns?

Federalist 2: Cut some votes, just in case

Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, 1800:

Jeffersonian 1 : What if the Federalists try to rig the election?

Jeffersonian 2: Get some guns just in case

[an-american-experiment]

The election of eighteen hundred. Can we get back to politics? Please? Yo. Ev’ry action has an equal, opposite reaction. John Adams shat the bed.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Everyone knew Adams would be the Federalist Presidential nominee and Jefferson the one for the Democratic-Republicans, what was not known was who could be their respective Vice Presidents. When Charles Pickney and Aaron Burr joined the race, it was supposed to be that Pickney would be Adams’ Vice President and Jefferson’s Vice President would be Aaron Burr, but because the person with the most votes became President and the person who got the second most votes became the Vice President, this was not necessarily how it would work out.

Adams and Hamilton tore each other apart during the summer of campaigning for the election despite both being Federalists. Hamilton got so angry in their feud he might have challenged Adams to a duel if Adams had not been the President. 

Sources: the following sources were used - the collected letters/writings of Alexander Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton the Revolution, Ron Chernow’s biography of Hamilton, The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton by Allan McLane Hamilton, Hamilton by Richard Syllia, and Charles Cerami’s book called Young Patriots. In addition, War of Two by John Sedgwick and Washington and Hamilton by Tony Williams were used throughout. 

Follow us at @an-american-experiment where we are historically analyzing the lyrics of Hamilton with a new post every day!

[historybizarre]

Early American Elections offers a window into the formative era of American politics by producing interactive maps and visualizations of Congressional and state legislative elections from 1787 to 1825.

The framers of the federal Constitution had not anticipated the development of permanent political parties. Parties were considered “factions,” dangerous and illegitimate alliances that pursued their own self-interest at the expense of the common good. National leaders were expected to serve the interests of the entire nation, not to cater to any particular regional, class, or state interests.

This ideal of governance was first challenged during the debate over the ratification of the Constitution. Opponents of the Constitution, called “Anti-Federalists,” challenged supporters of the Constitution, called “Federalists,” for votes. Despite the intensity of the conflict, these coalitions were transient and disappeared soon after the new government went into operation.

During the first years of the new republic’s existence, two distinct and mutually antagonistic coalitions quickly emerged, coalescing into the first nascent political parties. Historians have come to call these two groups the “Federalists” and the “Democratic-Republicans.”

[ID: comparative maps of the 1806 and 1815 congressional elections which show the number of districts going for the Federalist party increasing in 1815. /ID]

[shoddymusicalmemes]

Are you ready for this??? Instead of political parties, in the secondary school au, we have houses. The Democratic-Republicans, captained by Thomas Jefferson, have a huge rivalry with the Federalists, captained by John Adams. Headmaster Washington, honestly, wishes there wasn’t a house system at all. Nobody else shares these views, and my goodness, do Alex and Thomas go at it in the House Debating competition, as you can probably imagine.

Aaron Burr started out in Year Seven as a Federalist, but then, due to an imbalance in numbers, was switched to the D-Rs. Alex has never forgiven him for that.

Also, introducing some new students! Dolley Payne-Todd is a Year Ten and throws the best parties in the whole of Upper School. John Adams is a Year Eleven (once again, ignore his height - I headcanon him as unusually short. Not as short as poor James, though). He likes throwing his (ample) weight around and bullying the younger ones, especially Alex, although as Treasurer of Federalist House our Hammy won’t stand for any nonsense.

[an-american-experiment]

We want our leaders to save the day - But we don’t get a say in what they trade away. We dream of a brand new start - But we dream in the dark, for the most part. Dark as a tomb where it happens. I’ve got to be in the room … The room where it happens. I’ve got to be… The room where it happens. I’ve got to be.. The room where it happens. Oh, I’ve got to be in the room where it happens… The room where it happens. I’ve got to be, I’ve gotta be, I’ve gotta be… in the room! The room where it happens. I wanna be in the room where it happens. Click-boom! Click-boom!

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Politics in the United States have always been divisive to some extent. The Federalists and the group that came from the Anti-Federalists - Democratic-Republicans, Jeffersonians, Burrites, what have you, fought brutally. They wrote horrible comments in the papers and held nothing back (more on that later). Despite this, they are still forced to work together. Burr joined this fray (though, however, he had been a part of it before in the New York Assembly previously) with every intent of making it to the top. Whatever his beliefs, and he did keep them close and did not always write them down or share them, he knew he wanted a say in the new government. 

Sources: the following sources were used - the collected letters/writings of Alexander Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton the Revolution, Ron Chernow’s biography of Hamilton, The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton by Allan McLane Hamilton, Hamilton by Richard Syllia, and Charles Cerami’s book called Young Patriots. In addition, War of Two by John Sedgwick and Washington and Hamilton by Tony Williams were used throughout. 

Follow us at @an-american-experiment where we are historically analyzing the lyrics of Hamilton with a new post every day!

[an-american-experiment]

Wouldn’t you like to work a little closer to home? Actually, I would. Well, I propose the Potomac. And you’ll provide him his votes? Well, we’ll see how it goes. Let’s go.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

As is evident in Jefferson’s account of the dinner during the summer of 1790, this compromise, though agreed to, did not meet everyone’s tastes. Many people, both north and south, Federalist and Democratic-Republican disliked the agreement that occurred, but both sides got something out of it - this is the essence of a compromise. And compromise is necessary in a democratic-republic. 

Sources: the following sources were used - the collected letters/writings of Alexander Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton the Revolution, Ron Chernow’s biography of Hamilton, The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton by Allan McLane Hamilton, Hamilton by Richard Syllia, and Charles Cerami’s book called Young Patriots. In addition, War of Two by John Sedgwick and Washington and Hamilton by Tony Williams were used throughout. 

Follow us at @an-american-experiment where we are historically analyzing the lyrics of Hamilton with a new post every day!