The Democratic-Republican Party was better known as the Republican Party. The later Republican Party was named to pay homage to this party.
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The Free Soil Party (which later became the Republican Party) .
The Anti-Federalists party became the Democratic-Republican Party.
Whig (Later became what is now the Democrat Party) Democratic-Republicans (Later became what is now the Republican Party)
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The National Union Party became the Republican Party.
They became the Republican Party.
Thomas Jefferson's party, originally called the Anti-Federalists (for obvious reasons) that later became named the Democratic-Republican Party.
at the time there was a party called the whigs. Then later he joined the republicans
He was a Democratic-republican. Jefferson and Madison created the Democratic Republican Party to oppose the Federalist Party.
So, sometime between the 1860s and 1936, the (Democratic) party of small government became the party of big government, and the (Republican) party of big government became rhetorically committed to curbing federal power.
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