Who is the founder of the modern Republican Party?
The Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison as the republican party in 1792, was the dominant political party in the United States from 1800 until the 1820s. The party and its members identified themselves as the Republican party (not related to the present-day Republican Party), Republicans, Jeffersonians, Democratic Republicans, less frequently Democrats,[1] or combinations of these (like Jeffersonian republicans).[2] Jefferson and Madison created the party in order to oppose the economic and foreign policies of the Federalists, a party created a year or so earlier by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. Foreign policy issues were central; the party opposed the Jay Treaty of 1794 with Britain (then at war with France) and supported good relations with France before 1801. The Party insisted on a strict construction of the Constitution, and denounced many of Hamilton’s proposals (especially the national bank) as unconstitutional. The party promoted
