Federalists and Democratic-Republicans as Permanent Political Parties

Federalists and Democratic-Republicans provided the U.S. with permanent political parties due to their interpretation of the Constitution, which would evolve and merge the beliefs of the two as time went on. When the political parties were created, people they might believed weaken the unity of the U.S., but they checked and balanced each other out to make sure there would be no tyrannical party ruler. As the Federalists interpreted the Constitution loosely, mainly using the elastic clause, they were able to create and pass laws that were not directly stated in the Constitution, which the Democratic-Republicans would then argue as invalid. During the period from 1800 to 1824, both the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans stayed true to their traditional principles; however, both parties evolved and compromised their ideals during the endless conflict of the strengthening of the governments powers and adaptation to the never-ending disagreements political parties, according to what was needed at the time. Democratic-Republican ideals included interpreting the Constitution strictly and pushing westward for more land for an agrarian republic. The tenth amendment granted states rights to govern themselves if the powers were not given to the federal government by the Constitution or prohibited. This amendment played a big role in Democratic-Republicanism ideas, because they argued that every power not listed in the Constitution was given to the states, without consideration about the elastic clause. These main principles of interpreting the Constitution strictly were kept traditional even though different occurances called for changes. In Thomas Jefferson's letter to Gideon Granger, he argued that the Federalists were over-assuming powers that were not granted by the Constitution (Document A). The Democratic-Republicans did not accept the amending of the Constitution with the Federalist loose interpretation ideas in mind, and therefore is why these aspects were