Jeffersonian democracy - wikipedia Jeffersonian democracy Portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale in 1800 Jeffersonian democracy, named after its advocate Thomas Jefferson, was one of two dominant political outlooks and movements in the United States from the 1790s to the 1820s. The term was commonly used to refer to the Democratic - Republican Party ( formally named the `` Republican Party '' ), which Jefferson founded in opposition to the Federalist Party of Alexander Hamilton. The Jeffersonians were deeply committed to American republicanism, which meant opposition to aristocracy of any form, opposition to corruption, and insistence on virtue, with a priority for the `` yeoman farmer '', `` planters '', and the `` plain folk ''. They were antagonistic to the aristocratic elitism of merchants, bankers, and manufacturers, distrusted factory workers, and were on the watch for supporters of the dreaded British system of government. Jeffersonian democracy persisted as an element of the Democratic Party into the early 20th century, as exemplified by the rise of Jacksonian democracy and the three presidential candidacies of William Jennings Bryan. Its themes continue to echo in the 21st century, particularly among the Libertarian and Republican parties. At the beginning of the Jeffersonian era, only two states ( Vermont and Kentucky ) had established universal white male suffrage by abolishing property requirements. By the end of the period, more than half of the states had followed suit, including virtually all of the states in the Old Northwest. States then also moved on to allowing popular votes for presidential elections, canvassing voters in a more modern style. Jefferson 's party, known today as the Democratic - Republican Party, was then in full control of the apparatus of government -- from the state legislature and city hall to the White House. Contents 1 Positions 1.1 Westward expansion 1.2 Economics 1.3 Limited government 2 Politics and factions 3 Jefferson and Jeffersonian principles 4 See also 5 Notes 6 Further reading 6.1 Historiography Positions Periods in United States history Colonial period 1607 -- 1775 American Revolution 1765 -- 1783 Confederation Period 1783 -- 1788 Federalist Era 1788 -- 1801 Jeffersonian Era 1801 -- 1817 Era of Good Feelings 1817 -- 1825 Jacksonian Era 1825 -- 1849 Civil War era 1849 -- 1865 Reconstruction era 1865 -- 1877 Gilded Age 1870s -- c. 1900 Progressive Era 1897 -- 1920 Roaring Twenties 1920 -- 1929 Great Depression 1929 -- 1939 World War II 1941 -- 1945 Postwar era 1945 -- 1964 Civil Rights era 1964 -- 1980 Reagan Era 1981 -- 2001 Current Era 2001 -- present Timeline Jefferson has been called `` the most democratic of the Founding fathers ''. The Jeffersonians advocated a narrow interpretation of the Constitution 's Article I provisions granting powers to the federal government. They strenuously opposed the Federalist Party, led by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. President George Washington generally supported Hamilton 's program for a financially strong national government. The election of Jefferson in 1800, which he called `` the revolution of 1800 '', brought in the Presidency of Thomas Jefferson and the permanent eclipse of the Federalists, apart from the Supreme Court. `` Jeffersonian democracy '' is an umbrella term and some factions favored some positions more than others. While principled, with vehemently held core beliefs, the Jeffersonians had factions that disputed the true meaning of their creed. For example, during the War of 1812 it became apparent that independent state militia units were inadequate for conducting a serious war against a major country. The new Secretary of War John C. Calhoun, a Jeffersonian, proposed to build up the Army. With the support of most Republicans in Congress, he got his way. However, the `` Old Republican '' faction, claiming to be true to the Jeffersonian Principles of ' 98, fought him and reduced the size of the Army after Spain sold Florida to the U.S. Historians characterize Jeffersonian democracy as including the following core ideals : The core political value of America is republicanism -- citizens have a civic duty to aid the state and resist corruption, especially monarchism and aristocracy. Jeffersonian values are best expressed through an organized political party. The Jeffersonian party was officially the `` Republican Party '' ( political scientists later called it the Democratic - Republican Party to differentiate it from the later Republican Party of Lincoln ). It was the duty of citizens to vote and the Jeffersonians invented many modern campaign techniques designed to get out the vote. Turnout indeed soared across the country. The work of John J. Beckley, Jefferson 's agent in Pennsylvania, set new standards in the 1790s. In the 1796 presidential election, he blanketed the state with agents who passed out 30,000 hand - written tickets, naming all 15 electors ( printed tickets were not allowed ). Historians consider Beckley to be one of the first American professional campaign managers and his techniques were quickly adopted in other states. The Federalist Party, especially its leader Alexander Hamilton, was the arch - foe because of its acceptance of aristocracy and British methods. The national government is a dangerous necessity to be instituted for the common benefit, protection and security of the people, nation or community -- it should be watched closely and circumscribed in its powers. Most anti-Federalists from 1787 -- 1788 joined the Jeffersonians. Separation of church and state is the best method to keep government free of religious disputes and religion free from corruption by government. The federal government must not violate the rights of individuals. The Bill of Rights is a central theme. The federal government must not violate the rights of the states. The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798 ( written secretly by Jefferson and James Madison ) proclaim these principles. Freedom of speech and the press are the best methods to prevent tyranny over the people by their own government. The Federalists ' violation of this freedom through the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 became a major issue. The yeoman farmer best exemplifies civic virtue and independence from corrupting city influences -- government policy should be for his benefit. Financiers, bankers and industrialists make cities the `` cesspools of corruption '' and should be avoided. `` We the People '' in an original edition of the U.S. Constitution The United States Constitution was written in order to ensure the freedom of the people. However, as Jefferson wrote to James Madison in 1789, `` no society can make a perpetual constitution or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation ''. All men have the right to be informed and thus to have a say in the government. The protection and expansion of human liberty was one of the chief goals of the Jeffersonians. They also reformed their respective state systems of education. They believed that their citizens had a right to an education no matter their circumstance or status in life. The judiciary should be subservient to the elected branches and the Supreme Court should not have the power to strike down laws passed by Congress. The Jeffersonians lost this battle to Chief Justice John Marshall, a Federalist, who dominated the Court from 1801 to his death in 1835. The Jeffersonians also had a distinct foreign policy : Americans had a duty to spread what Jefferson called the `` Empire of Liberty '' to the world, but should avoid `` entangling alliances ''. Britain was the greatest threat, especially its monarchy, aristocracy, corruption and business methods -- the Jay Treaty of 1794 was much too favorable to Britain and thus threatened American values. At least in the early stages of the French Revolution, France was the ideal European nation. According to Michael Hardt, `` Jefferson 's support of the French Revolution often serves in his mind as a defense of republicanism against the monarchism of the Anglophiles ''. On the other hand, Napoleon was the antithesis of republicanism and could not be supported. Louisiana and the Mississippi River were critical to American national interests. Control by Spain was tolerable -- control by France was unacceptable. See Louisiana Purchase. A standing army and navy are dangerous to liberty and should be avoided -- much better was to use economic coercion such as the embargo. See Embargo Act of 1807. The militia was adequate to defend the nation. During the Revolutionary War previously, a national conflict, in this case the War of 1812, required the creation of a national army for the duration of international hostilities. Westward expansion Territorial expansion of the United States was a major goal of the Jeffersonians because it would produce new farm lands for yeomen farmers. The Jeffersonians wanted to integrate the Indians into American society, or remove further west those tribes that refused to integrate. However Sheehan ( 1974 ) argues that the Jeffersonians, with the best of goodwill toward the Indians, destroyed their distinctive cultures with its misguided benevolence. The original treaty of the Louisiana Purchase The Jeffersonians took enormous pride in the bargain they reached with France in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. It opened up vast new fertile farmlands from Louisiana to Montana. Jefferson saw the West as an economic safety valve which would allow people in the crowded East to own farms. However, established New England political interests feared the growth of the West and a majority in the Federalist Party opposed the purchase. Jeffersonians thought the new territory would help maintain their vision of the ideal republican society, based on agricultural commerce, governed lightly and promoting self - reliance and virtue. The Jeffersonians ' dream did not come to pass as the Louisiana Purchase was a turning point in the history of American imperialism. The farmers with whom Jefferson identified conquered the West, often through violence against Native Americans. Jefferson himself sympathized with Native Americans, but that did not stop him from enacting policies that would continue the trend towards the dispossession of their lands. Economics Jeffersonian agrarians held that the economy of the United States should rely more on agriculture for strategic commodities than on industry. Jefferson specifically believed : `` Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if He ever had a chosen people, whose breast He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue ''. However, Jeffersonian ideals are not opposed to all manufacturing, rather he believed that all people have the right to work to provide for their own subsistence and that an economic system which undermines that right is unacceptable. Jefferson 's belief was that unlimited expansion of commerce and industry would lead to the growth of a class of wage laborers who relied on others for income and sustenance. The workers would no longer be independent voters. Such a situation, Jefferson feared, would leave the American people vulnerable to political subjugation and economic manipulation. The solution Jefferson came up with was, as scholar Clay Jenkinson noted, `` a graduated income tax that would serve as a disincentive to vast accumulations of wealth and would make funds available for some sort of benign redistribution downward '' as well as tariffs on imported articles, which were mainly purchased by the wealthy. Similarly, Jefferson was against international trade. He believed that not only would economic dependence on Europe diminish the virtue of the republic, but that the United States had an abundance of natural resources that Americans should be able to cultivate and use to tend to their own needs. Furthermore, exporting goods by merchant ships created risks of capture by foreign pirates and armies, which would require an expensive navy for protection. Limited government Jefferson 's thoughts on limited government were influenced by the 17th century English political philosopher John Locke ( pictured ). While the Federalists advocated for a strong central government, Jeffersonians argued for strong state and local governments and a weak federal government. Self - sufficiency, self - government and individual responsibility were in the Jeffersonian worldview among the most important ideals that formed the basis of the American Revolution. In Jefferson 's opinion, nothing that could feasibly be accomplished by individuals at the local level ought to be accomplished by the federal government. The federal government would concentrate its efforts solely on national and international projects. Jefferson 's advocacy of limited government led to sharp disagreements with Federalist figures such as Alexander Hamilton. Jefferson felt that Hamilton favored plutocracy and the creation of a powerful aristocracy in the United States which would accumulate increasingly greater power until the political and social order of the United States became indistinguishable from those of the Old World. After initial skepticism, Jefferson supported the ratification of the United States Constitution and especially supported its stress on checks and balances. The ratification of the United States Bill of Rights, especially the First Amendment, gave Jefferson even greater confidence in the document. Jeffersonians favored a strict construction interpretation of federal government powers described in Article I of the Constitution. For example, Jefferson once wrote a letter to Charles Willson Peale explaining that although a Smithsonian - style national museum would be a wonderful resource, he could not support the use of federal funds to construct and maintain such a project. The `` strict constructionism '' of today is a remote descendant of Jefferson 's views. Politics and factions James Madison James Monroe The spirit of Jeffersonian democracy dominated American politics from 1800 to 1824, the First Party System, under Jefferson and succeeding presidents James Madison and James Monroe. The Jeffersonians proved much more successful than the Federalists in building state and local party organizations that united various factions. Voters in every state formed blocs loyal to the Jeffersonian coalition. Prominent spokesmen for Jeffersonian principles included Madison, Albert Gallatin, John Randolph of Roanoke, Nathaniel Macon, John Taylor of Caroline and James Monroe, as well as John C. Calhoun, John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay ( with the last three taking new paths after 1828 ). Randolph was the Jeffersonian leader in Congress from 1801 to 1815, but he later broke with Jefferson and formed his own `` Tertium Quids '' faction because he thought the president no longer adhered to the true Jeffersonian principles of 1798. The Quids wanted to actively punish and discharge Federalists in the government and in the courts. Jefferson himself sided with the moderate faction exemplified by figures such as Madison, who were much more conciliatory towards Federalism. After the Madison administration experienced serious trouble financing the War of 1812 and discovered the Army and militia were unable to make war effectively, a new generation of Republican nationalists emerged. They were supported by President James Monroe, an original Jeffersonian ; and included John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. In 1824, Adams defeated Andrew Jackson, who had support from the Quids ; and in a few years two successor parties had emerged, the Democratic Party, which formulated Jacksonian democracy and which still exists ; and Henry Clay 's Whig Party. Their competition marked the Second Party System. After 1830, the principles were still talked about but did not form the basis of a political party, thus editor Horace Greeley in 1838 started a magazine, The Jeffersonian, that he said `` would exhibit a practical regard for that cardinal principle of Jeffersonian Democracy, and the People are the sole and safe depository of all power, principles and opinions which are to direct the Government ''. Jefferson and Jeffersonian principles Jeffersonian democracy was not a one - man operation. It was a large political party with many local and state leaders and various factions, and they did not always agree with Jefferson or with each other. Jefferson was accused of inconsistencies by his opponents. The `` Old Republicans '' said that he abandoned the Principles of 1798. He believed the national security concerns were so urgent that it was necessary to purchase Louisiana without waiting for a Constitutional amendment. He enlarged federal power through the intrusively - enforced Embargo Act of 1807. He idealized the `` yeoman farmer '' despite being himself a gentleman plantation owner. The disparities between Jefferson 's philosophy and practice have been noted by numerous historians. Staaloff proposed that it was due to his being a proto - Romantic ; John Quincy Adams claimed that it was a manifestation of pure hypocrisy, or `` pliability of principle '' ; and Bailyn asserts it simply represented a contradiction with Jefferson, that he was `` simultaneously a radical utopian idealist and a hardheaded, adroit, at times cunning politician ''. However, Jenkinson argued that Jefferson 's personal failings ought not to influence present day thinkers to disregard Jeffersonian ideals. Kuehnelt - Leddihn, a European nobleman who opposed democracy, argues that `` Jeffersonian democracy '' is a misnomer because Jefferson was not a democrat, but in fact believed in rule by an elite : `` Jefferson actually was an Agrarian Romantic who dreamt of a republic governed by an elite of character and intellect ''. Historian Sean Wilentz argues that as a practical politician elected to serve the people Jefferson had to negotiate solutions, not insist on his own version of abstract positions. The result, Wilentz argues, was `` flexible responses to unforeseen events... in pursuit of ideals ranging from the enlargement of opportunities for the mass of ordinary, industrious Americans to the principled avoidance of war ''. Historians have long portrayed the contest between Jefferson and Hamilton as iconic for the politics, political philosophy, economic policies and future direction of the United States. In 2010, Wilentz identified a scholarly trend in Hamilton 's favor : In recent years, Hamilton and his reputation have decidedly gained the initiative among scholars who portray him as the visionary architect of the modern liberal capitalist economy and of a dynamic federal government headed by an energetic executive. Jefferson and his allies, by contrast, have come across as naïve, dreamy idealists. At best according to many historians, the Jeffersonians were reactionary utopians who resisted the onrush of capitalist modernity in hopes of turning America into a yeoman farmers ' arcadia. At worst, they were proslavery racists who wish to rid the West of Indians, expand the empire of slavery, and keep political power in local hands -- all the better to expand the institution of slavery and protect slaveholders ' rights to own human property. See also Agrarianism American election campaigns in the 19th century Anti-Federalism Bibliography of Thomas Jefferson Classical liberalism Classical republicanism Decentralization Democratic - Republican Party First Party System Jacksonian democracy Libertarianism in the United States Republicanism in the United States Notes Jump up ^ William S. Dietrich ( 2008 ). In the Shadow of the Rising Sun : The Political Roots of American Economic Decline. Penn State Press. p. 165. Jump up ^ Jeff Taylor, Where Did the Party Go ? : William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy ( 2006 ) Jump up ^ Michael Kazin, et al. eds. The Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History ( 2011 ) p. 149 Jump up ^ James J. Horn, Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf, eds. The Revolution of 1800 : Democracy, Race, and the New Republic ( 2002 ) Jump up ^ Leonard D. White, The Jeffersonians : A study in administrative history 1801 -- 1829 ( 1951 ) pp. 214, 248 -- 49 Jump up ^ Fitzgerald, Michael S. ( 1996 ). `` Rejecting Calhoun 's Expansible Army Plan : the Army Reduction Act of 1821 ''. War in History. 3 ( 2 ) : 161 -- 85. doi : 10.1177 / 096834459600300202. Jump up ^ Lance Banning, Jeffersonian Persuasion : Evolution of a Party Ideology ( 1978 ) pp. 79 -- 90 Jump up ^ Noble E. Cunningham, The Jeffersonian party to 1801 : a study of the formation of a party organization ( 1952 ) Jump up ^ Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American democracy ( 2006 ) pp. 138 -- 39 Jump up ^ Jeffrey L. Pasley, `` ' A Journeyman, Either in Law or Politics ' : John Beckley and the Social Origins of Political Campaigning, '' Journal of the Early Republic Vol. 16, No. 4 ( Winter, 1996 ), pp. 531 -- 69 in JSTOR Jump up ^ Banning ( 1978 ) pp. 105 -- 15 Jump up ^ Philip Hamburger, Separation of church and state ( 2002 ) Jump up ^ Robert Allen Rutland ; The Birth of the Bill of Rights, 1776 -- 1791 ( 1955 ) Jump up ^ Banning ( 1978 ) pp. 264 -- 66 Jump up ^ Banning ( 1978 ) pp. 255 -- 66 Jump up ^ Elkins and McKitrick. ( 1995 ) ch 5 ; Wallace Hettle, The Peculiar Democracy : Southern Democrats in Peace and Civil War ( 2001 ) p. 15 Jump up ^ Jefferson letter to James Madison, September 6, 1789 http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/brf/jefl81.htm Jump up ^ Roy J. Honeywell, `` A Note on the Educational Work of Thomas Jefferson, '' History of Education Quarterly, Winter 1969, Vol. 9 Issue 1, pp. 64 -- 72 in JSTOR Jump up ^ R. Kent Newmyer, John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court ( 2001 ) Jump up ^ Robert W. Tucker and David C. Hendrickson, Empire of Liberty : The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson ( 1990 ). Jump up ^ Lawrence S. Kaplan, Entangling alliances with none : American foreign policy in the age of Jefferson ( 1987 ) Jump up ^ Todd Estes, The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, and the Evolution of Early American Political Culture ( 2006 ) Jump up ^ Michael Hardt, `` Jefferson and Democracy, '' American Quarterly 59.1 ( 2007 ) pp. 41 -- 78, quote on p. 63 Jump up ^ Merrill D. Peterson, `` Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, '' Tocqueville Review -- La Revue Tocqueville, Jan 1987, Vol. 9, pp. 15 -- 25 Jump up ^ Banning ( 1978 ) pp. 292 -- 93 Jump up ^ Bernard W. Sheehan, Seeds of Extinction : Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American Indian ( 1974 ) Jump up ^ The Lewis & Clark, Fort Mandan Foundation. `` Show 1048 -- Redistribution. '' The Thomas Jefferson Hour. Prairie Public Radio : 27 October 2013. Web. 30 October 2013. Jump up ^ Junius P. Rodriguez, The Louisiana Purchase : A Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia ( 2002 ) pp. 106, 253 -- 54 Jump up ^ White, Richard ( 1991 ). `` It 's your misfortune and none of my own '' : a new history of the American West. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 63. ISBN 0 - 8061 - 2366 - 4. Jump up ^ Jenkinson. `` # 1247 On My Doorstep. '' Podcast. The Thomas Jefferson Hour. The Thomas Jefferson Hour, 15 August 2017. Web. 17 August 2017. Jump up ^ Thomas Jefferson ( 1900 ). John P. Foley, ed. The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia : A Comprehensive Collection Of The Views Of Thomas Jefferson Classified And Arranged In Alphabetical Order Under Nine Thousand Titles Relating To Government, Politics, Law, Education, Political Economy, Finance, Science, Art, Literature, Religious Freedom, Morals, Etc. Funk & Wagnalls company. p. 323. Retrieved 26 March 2010. Jump up ^ Jenkinson, Becoming Jefferson 's People, p. 27 Jump up ^ Jenkinson, Becoming Jefferson 's People, p. 26 Jump up ^ Jefferson, `` The Jeffersonian cyclopedia. '' These revenues will be levied entirely on the rich... The Rich alone use imported article, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied. The poor man... pays not a farthing of tax to the General Government, but on his salt ; and should we go into that manufacture also, as is probable, he will pay nothing. ^ Jump up to : Jenkinson. `` # 1253 Second Term. '' Podcast. The Thomas Jefferson Hour. The Thomas Jefferson Hour, 26 September 2017. Web. 26 August 2017. ^ Jump up to : Ketcham, p. 259 ^ Jump up to : Jenkinson, Becoming Jefferson 's People, pp. 36 -- 38 Jump up ^ Noble E. Cunningham Jr. The Jeffersonian Republicans in Power : Party Operations, 1801 -- 1809 ( 1963 ) Jump up ^ Robertson, Andrew W. ( Summer 2013 ). `` Afterword : Reconceptualizing Jeffersonian Democracy ''. Journal of the Early Republic. 33 ( 2 ) : 317 -- 334. doi : 10.1353 / jer. 2013.0023. Jump up ^ Benjamin F. Wright, `` The Philosopher of Jeffersonian Democracy, '' American Political Science Review Vol. 22, No. 4 ( Nov. 1928 ), pp. 870 -- 92 in JSTOR Jump up ^ Carson, David A. ( April 1986 ). `` That Ground Called Quiddism : John Randolph 's War with the Jefferson Administration ''. Journal of American Studies. 20 ( 1 ) : 71 -- 92. JSTOR 27554706. Jump up ^ Richard P. McCormick, The Second American Party System : Party Formation in the Jacksonian Era ( 1966 ). Jump up ^ Editorial, The Jeffersonian 1838 vol. 1 p. 287 Jump up ^ Padraig Riley, Northern Republicans and southern slavery : Democracy in the age of Jefferson, 1800 -- 1819 ( 2007 ) p. 161 Jump up ^ Robert M. Johnstone, Jefferson and the Presidency : leadership in the young Republic ( 1978 ) p. 44 Jump up ^ Staaloff, Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson, pp. 285 -- 92 Jump up ^ Bernard Bailyn, To Begin the World Anew : The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders ( 2004 ) p. 38 Jump up ^ Bailyn, p. 45 Jump up ^ Jenkinson, Becoming Jefferson 's People, p. 8 Jump up ^ Erik von Kuehnelt - Leddihn. Liberty or Equality : The Challenge of Our Time ( 1952 ) p. 7 Jump up ^ Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy : Jefferson to Lincoln ( 2006 ) p. 136 Jump up ^ Sean Wilentz, `` Book Reviews '', Journal of American History Sept. 2010 v. 97 # 2 p. 476. Further reading Banning, Lance. The Jeffersonian Persuasion : Evolution of a Party Ideology ( 1978 ) online free to borrow Banning, Lance. `` Jeffersonian Ideology Revisited : Liberal and Classical Ideas in the New American Republic, '' William and Mary Quarterly ( 1986 ) 43 # 1 pp. 3 -- 19 in JSTOR Beard, Charles A. `` Some Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy. '' American Historical Review 19 # 2 ( 1914 ) : pp. 282 -- 98 ; Summary of his famous book ; in JSTOR Brown ; Stuart Gerry. The First Republicans : Political Philosophy and Public Policy in the Party of Jefferson and Madison ( 1954 ) online Cunningham, Noble E. The Jeffersonian Republicans in power ; party operations, 1801 - 1809 ( 1963 ) online free to borrow Elkins, Stanley M. and Eric L. McKitrick. The Age of Federalism : The Early American Republic, 1788 -- 1800 ( 1995 ), the standard political history of the 1790s online free to borrow Hendrickson, David C. and Robert W. Tucker. Empire of Liberty : the statecraft of Thomas Jefferson ( 1990 ) ; His foreign policy Jefferson, Thomas. `` The Jeffersonian cyclopedia : a... ''. topical compendium of Jefferson 's statements and quotes McCoy, Drew R. The elusive Republic : political economy in Jeffersonian America ( 1982 ) online free to borrow Onuf, Peter, ed. Jeffersonian legacies ( 1993 ) online free to borrow Parrington, Vernon. Main Currents in American Thought ( 1927 ) v 2 online Pasley, Jeff. The Tyranny of Printers. ( 1 ) Peterson, Merrill D. The Jefferson Image in the American Mind ( 1960 ) Robinson, William A. Jeffersonian democracy in New England ( Yale U.P. 1916 ) online Taylor, Jeff. Where Did the Party Go ? : William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy ( 2006 ) Wilentz, Sean. The Rise of American Democracy : Jefferson to Lincoln ( 2005 ) Wilentz, Sean. `` Jeffersonian democracy and the origins of political antislavery in the United States : The Missouri crisis revisited. '' Journal of the Historical Society 4 # 3 ( 2004 ) : pp. 375 -- 401. Wiltse, Charles Maurice. The Jeffersonian Tradition in American Democracy ( 1935 ) online free to borrow Wiltse, Charles M. `` Jeffersonian Democracy : a Dual Tradition. '' American Political Science Review ( 1934 ) 28 # 05 pp. 838 -- 51. in JSTOR Wood, Gordon S. ( 2009 ). Empire of Liberty : A History of the Early Republic, 1789 - 1815. Oxford University Press. Wright, Benjamin F. `` The Philosopher of Jeffersonian Democracy. '' American Political Science Review 22 # 4 ( 1928 ) : pp. 870 -- 92. in JSTOR Historiography Cogliano, Francis D. ed. A Companion to Thomas Jefferson ( 2012 ), 648 pp ; 34 essays by scholars focusing on how historians have handled Jefferson. online Robertson, Andrew W. `` Afterword : Reconceptualizing Jeffersonian Democracy, '' Journal of the Early Republic ( 2013 ) 33 # 2 pp. 317 -- 34 on recent voting studies online History of the United States Timeline Prehistory Pre-Columbian Colonial 1776 -- 1789 1789 -- 1849 1849 -- 1865 1865 -- 1918 1918 -- 1945 1945 -- 1964 1964 -- 1980 1980 -- 1991 1991 -- 2008 2008 -- present Topics American Century Cities Constitution Demographic Diplomatic Economic Education Immigration Medical Merchant Marine Military Musical Religious Slavery Southern Technological and industrial Territorial acquisitions Territorial evolution Voting rights Women Category Portal Democratic - Republican Party Presidential tickets Thomas Jefferson / Aaron Burr ( 1796 and 1800 ) Thomas Jefferson / George Clinton ( 1804 ) James Madison / George Clinton ( 1808 ) James Madison / Elbridge Gerry ( 1812 ) James Monroe / Daniel D. 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Question: which political party was created by thomas jefferson which promoted a more limited government
Answer: the Democratic-Republican Party