Was Alexander Hamilton a federalist or a democratic republican?

Answer 1

Hamilton was one of the founders of the Federalist Party. The Republican Party of today descended from that formed of ex-Whigs in 1854, running John C. Fremont for president in 1856. Lincoln was their first successful presidential candidate in 1860. Andrew Jackson founded the modern Democratic Party.

Jefferson's (and Madison's) party was called the Democratic Republican Party, but they referred to themselves and their cause constantly as Republican, by which they meant opposed to Monarchy, opposed to control of the country by the Few, by the Elite. The constrast is rather stark with the meaning of Republican today, which is the party of the 1%.

Jefferson makes this useful distinction in a letter of 1798:

"Two political Sects have arisen within the U. S.

1. the one believing that the executive is the branch of our government which the most needs support;
2. the other that like the analogous branch in the English Government, it is already too strong for the republican parts of the Constitution; and therefore in equivocal cases they incline to the legislative powers.

1. the former of these are called federalists, sometimes aristocrats or monocrats, and sometimes tories, after the corresponding sect in the English Government of exactly the same definition:
2. the latter are stiled republicans, whigs, jacobins, anarchists, disorganizers, etc. these terms are in familiar use with most persons."

Clearly by these lights, the modern Republican Party is parallel to the Federalists (indeed the five conservative justices of the Supreme Court are members of the Federalist Society), where the Bush-Cheney administration championed the Unitary Executive. In general, Democrats emphasize the Legislature as first among equals, though no president likes to give up power (that's the difficulty with past power grabs).

Answer 2

he was neither, he was a federalist, however Thomas Jefferson was a republican

When Hamilton was alive there were two different parties: Federalists and Democratic-Repunlicans. Hamilton was a federalist.

Answer 3

No, he was a federalist.

Answer 4

Alexander Hamilton was a Federalist.

Answer 5

He was a Federalist.

Answer 6

Neither. Hamilton was a Federalist.