There are many differences between the Democratic-Republican Party and the Federalist Party. Especially in the last decade of the 18th century, that is, between the late 1700s and the early 1800s. They have different opinions on foreign relations and their beliefs about the war between France and Great Britain, their federal government and vision of America . Their leaders are completely different people. When it comes to foreign relations, Federalists think that the United States should not support the French war. They think that war would diminish the country's freedom, stability and economy. The Hamiltonians supported the Jay Treaty associated with Britain. Great Britain has a very good economic system, so the federalists are very close to them. Democratic-Republicans think that the United States' participation in the French war was a good idea because we are fighting an autocrat. The Democratic-Republicans fight Britain because of their monarchy. They thought the United States should side with France in the war against Great Britain because we had had France's help in our war to rid ourselves of a tyrant king. Hamiltonians favored a strong central government, with the elastic clause allowing whatever “necessary” power the government had. The elastic clause had a very free construction. The government should use its power to control and aid large-scale trade. High class people should have control over people. Lower class people were not trusted and could not make decisions for the nation. The Whiskey Rebellion was unconstitutional, masses of rude people didn't understand democratic methods and thought they could form a rebel group every time a law they didn't like was passed. He proved that they need a strong government to prevent this from happening....middle of paper...he roamed and supported Scots-Irish, French and German immigrants. Thoughts about the Federalists were that they were monarchists, tyrants of power who wanted aristocrats who would do their best to get rid of the rights of common people as much as possible. They thought that the Hamiltonians simply wanted to turn America into a monarchy like their ally Great Britain. A Jeffersonians wrote to a newspaper that called John Adams a “damned tyrant,” their thoughts on the alien and seditious acts in which they had taken away rights from the people making them unconstitutional. Many differences between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans kept them separate and did not allow them to become one in harmony. They never had actual fistfights, but they conducted very brutal verbal attacks on each other. Threats were used. The two completely different parties had no chance of working together.