History

History During the years of 1801-1817, two political parties existed. One of them was called the federalists which was the loose constructionist, giving more power to national government. The second political party was called the Democratic-Republicans. They were the strict constructionist. This party gave more power to states. The Democratic-Republicans were usually characterized as a strict constructionist. However during the presidencies of Jefferson and Madison they had to adapt to some Federalist ideas. Also the Federalists were characterized as broad constructionists even though at the same time, they also had to adapt to some Democratic ideas. Democratic-Republicans were strict constructionists. Strict constructionists gave more power to states than to national government. Jefferson himself was a strict constructionist, which says any power that is not given to Federal government of the power is reserved to the states by the 10th amendment. Jefferson showed that he believed in strict constructionist by writing a letter to Gideon Granger in 2800’s which said “the states are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign nations,” this meant that the states have all the power within their country and the national government states, power, jefferson, united, strict, loose, ideas, government, federalists, constructionist, one, madison, constructionists, adapt, war, national, embargo, order, federalist, said, republican, purchase, new, letter, land, example, even, during, democratic-republicans, country, act, wrote, right, political, part