Were the founding fathers Democrats or Republicans?

Democratic-Republican mostly. Keeping track of political history is a bitch, but some historians have contributed to a breakdown that, though a bit hokey, turns out to serve as a pretty decent mnemonic device. read more

The founding fathers were neither Democrats nor Republicans. They were largely Federalists and Anti-Federalists. Meaning they weren’t debating about the things that we were arguing. They were arguing over whether there should even be a federal government! They were arguing over whether the states themselves were superior to the federal government. read more

I think that the Federalists (John Adams, George Washington-had Federalist sympathies, Alexander Hamilton, etc.) would be either moderate/liberal Republicans (not neocons) or Democrats today. Theodore Roosevelt was a liberal Republican, but read a lot of Hamilton's work and was heavily influenced by him. read more

America’s founding fathers were classical liberals, meaning they favored liberty, private property, capitalism, freedom of religion, and a limited Republican style of government. See definition of classical liberalism. read more