John Adams Politics and Contestants

In support of Adams

As always in politics, there are many parties opposing each other with different points of view, beliefs and ideas. In the mid-1790s in America, the two big political rivals were known as the Federalists and the Republicans. These two groups were the result of the polarization over the French Revolution, Haiti, the Jay Treaty and Hamilton’s economic plans. My personal vote in the context of the time period would go to the contender John Adams and his political ideas of Federalism. As the day of today, the government of the United States has became powerful worldly and has a good balance between central and state rulings.

The Federalist Party was first created in 1792 by Alexander Hamilton who mostly reunited landowners, bankers and businessmen. They believed in a strong central government, supported Britain in foreign policy and commercial interests at home and opposed the French, who at the time were convulsed by the French Revolution (American Promise, p.265). Many famous Federalists included Hamilton, John Adams, and Georges Washington, who, even he if resented having any party label, was known to be aligned with them. In 1796, Federalist John Adams of Massachusetts won the election against Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. The result was very close since he won 71 electoral votes against 68 for Jefferson (President Elect). This tightness in between the votes shows how divided the population was. In fact, if I was to vote for the Federalist or the Democratic-Republican Party in the mid-1790s I would have voted for Adams. I believe that the Federalists ideas were a more contemporary way to see America and would help the states being more powerful as a whole instead of separated. One of the details that I would disagree about is their refusal of the Bill of Rights. I believe that since its creation, it has been a very strong basis of the American government and that it was a good call from the opposite party. Another...