In foreign policy, Federalists generally favored England over France. Anti-Federalists such as Thomas Jefferson feared that a concentration of central authority might lead to a loss of individual ...

Check -- John Adams and Thomas Jefferson ... American Revolution because they were pro-British and anti-French. The Federalists thought Jefferson's pro-French party was as radical as France's ...

It voted for Thomas Jefferson as president and Aaron Burr as vice president. Jefferson called his election (and the defeat of Adams) “the revolution of 1800” because this was the first time control of ...

The most extreme accusations Democrats and Republicans hurl at one another today would be familiar to the Founding Fathers.

A Faulty Attempt to Interrogate Roald Dahl on Stage A Perfect Cake for Fall or Winter A new biography explores the long-running rivalry between the Federalist chief justice John Marshall and his ...

After seven days of balloting, the House of Representatives elected Thomas Jefferson president, and Aaron Burr Vice-President. Thus ended the rule of the Federalists, the first party that ever ...

Donald Trump has often been likened to Aaron Burr, described as ‘one of the most unprincipled men in the United States’. His isolationism, however, owes more to Thomas Jefferson.

The Democratic Party dates back to anti-federalist groups from the time of American independence. Thomas Jefferson and James ...

In the 1800 presidential campaign with Federalist John Adams running against Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson, the Federalists’ campaign slogan was: ‘GOD — AND A RELIGIOUS PRESIDENT ...

John Adams and Thomas ... the anti-heroes of modern fiction and film: neither handsome nor dashing, full of self-doubt, yet capable of great deeds. Adams was always transparent, but Jefferson ...

George Mason and Thomas Jefferson (privately to Madison), along with a few other Anti-Federalists, raised concerns over the granting of state-sanctioned monopolies, which the Framers certainly ...