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How did the federalists and anti-federalists evolve to the present-day bipartisan system?
How did the Republicans and Democrats come to represent the federalist and anti-federalist ideals?
The Republican Party was founded in the 1850s as an anti-slavery party and supported policies that aligned with the Democratic Party's ideals of a smaller government and states' rights. The Democratic Party, on the other hand, eventually embraced Hamiltonian policies of a stronger central government and larger federal power.