Jefferson,
ThomasCourtesy
of the White House Collection, Washington, D.C.During
the two administrations of President
George Washington (1789–97), many former
Anti-Federalists—who had resisted adoption of the
new federal
Constitution (1787)—began to unite in opposition
to the fiscal program of
Alexander Hamilton, secretary of the treasury.
After Hamilton and other proponents of a strong central
government and a loose interpretation of the Constitution
formed the
Federalist Party in 1791,
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Democratic-Republican Party
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