in U.S.
history, political party formed from the nucleus of the Anti-Federalists and the country's first opposition party. Formed in 1792 by supporters of Thomas Jefferson in opposition to the Federalist Party of Alexander Hamilton, the party developed into the Democratic-Republican Party (1798) and was the forerunner of the modern Democratic Party.
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