Was George Washington a Democrat or Republican?

Answer 1

Those parties didn't exist yet. But there was the anti-federalist and federalist party. He was a federalist. So, if he really had to choose a side, he would probably pick republican.

Neither. He was a Federalist.

George Washington was a member of the Federalist Party. The Federalist Party eventually was succeeded by the Republican Party.

Answer 2

Those parties didn't exist yet. But there was the anti-federalist and federalist party. He was a federalist. So, if he really had to choose a side, he would probably pick republican.

Neither. He was a Federalist.

George Washington was a member of the Federalist Party. The Federalist Party eventually was succeeded by the Republican Party.

Answer 3

George Washington was a Republican. He and the other founding fathers formed a Constitutional REPUBLIC, they were very clear about that. The word Democrat is derived from the word Democracy. The founding fathers despised democracy.

Article 4, Section 4 of the United States Constitution specifies that every State in the United States was to have a Republican form of government: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government…"

"Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." -John Adams, 1814

"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind." -Thomas Jefferson, 1790

"A primary object…should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing on its legislature than to patronize a plan for communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?" (The Real George Washington, p. 672)

Answer 4

Democrat

Answer 5

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