What political party did George Washington belong to?
The following was aquote from Wikapedia… The Federalist Party was a United States political party in the period 1793 to 1816, with remnants lasting into the 1820s. Opposition to Federalist stances led Jefferson and Madison to form the “republican party” [1](later called the Democratic-Republican Party), leading to the First Party System. The Federalists controlled the federal government until 1801. The party was formed by Alexander Hamilton, who, in about 1792, built a network of supporters in the principal cities to support his fiscal policies. They were nationalists who wanted a fiscally and militarily strong nation state, and showed little interest in states’ rights. The new party advocated a loose construction of the United States Constitution based on the “Elastic Clause”. It believed in rule by a well-educated elite, and thus appealed to merchants, bankers, lawyers, editors, landowners, and industrialists; one of John Jay’s favorite maxims was, “The people who own the country o
