what is republican and democrat
The Democratic-Republican Party was the American political party in the 1790s of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison formed in opposition to the centralizing policies of the new Federalist party.It came to power in 1800, and dominated national and state affairs until the 1820s, when it faded away.t was the second political party in the United States, and was organized by then Thomas Jefferson and his friend James Madison in 1791â93, to oppose the Federalist Party run by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.