Chapter 2 Federalists, Democratic Republicans, and the Emergence of the Democratic Party, 1801 – 1853
“We are all Republicans. We are all Federalists.” Spoken in the newly built Capitol building of a national capital still taking shape on the banks of the Potomac River, President Thomas Jefferson’s words delivered for his Inaugural on Wednesday, March 4, 1801 mark a formative moment in an enduring two-party history, the names of our Democrats and Republicans still tracing back today to the Jeffersonian era of the Democratic Republicans.
“The name [Republican] remained as the label practically every man in politics assumed,” William Nisbet Chambers tells us of the early years of the nineteenth century in his 1963 Political Parties in a New ...
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