Anti-Administration Party

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The Anti-Administration Party was an early informal political faction in the United States that opposed many policies of George Washington’s administration and helped lay the groundwork for the later Democratic-Republican Party.

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instanceOf informal political party
political faction
alsoKnownAs Anti-Administration Party
surface form: Anti-Administration faction

Anti-Administration group
ceasedToExistAs distinct faction by mid-1790s
country United States of America
surface form: United States
emergedDuring First United States Congress
Second United States Congress
hadKeyLeader Aaron Burr
Albert Gallatin
James Madison
James Monroe
Thomas Jefferson
William Branch Giles
historicalContext Early national period of the United States
ideologicalSuccessor Democratic-Republican Party
ideology Jeffersonian republicanism
influenced formation of the first party system in the United States
language English
legislativeBase United States House of Representatives
United States Senate
mergedInto Democratic-Republican Party
notableEvent opposition to the Jay Treaty groundwork
opposed Federalist Party policies
presidency of George Washington
surface form: George Washington administration
opposedLeader Alexander Hamilton
opposedPolicy Alexander Hamilton’s financial program
creation of the First Bank of the United States
excise taxes such as the whiskey tax
federal assumption of state Revolutionary War debts
politicalPosition agrarianism
opposition to a strong central bank
opposition to assumption of state debts
opposition to protective tariffs
pro-French foreign policy
states’ rights
strict constructionism
preceded Democratic-Republican Party
region Eastern United States
supported agrarian interests over commercial interests
greater power for state governments
limited federal government
supportedLeader James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
timePeriod early 1790s
wasPrecededBy Pro-Administration faction

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Richard Henry Lee memberOfPoliticalParty Anti-Administration Party
George Clinton memberOfPoliticalParty Anti-Administration Party
Alexander Martin memberOfPoliticalParty Anti-Administration Party
William Grayson memberOfPoliticalParty Anti-Administration Party
Second United States Congress mainPoliticalGrouping Anti-Administration Party
William Few wasMemberOf Anti-Administration Party
this entity surface form: Anti-Administration faction in the U.S. Senate
Anti-Administration Party alsoKnownAs Anti-Administration Party
this entity surface form: Anti-Administration faction
Pro-Administration Party opposedBy Anti-Administration Party
Edmund Randolph (nephew) memberOfPoliticalParty Anti-Administration Party
subject surface form: Edmund Randolph