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Originally Posted by awareness

So all our founding fathers were democrats? Cool. Where were the republicans?

They were the abolitionists fighting slavery.

The Democrats were covering themselves with the claims of personal liberty (meaning they have the right to own slaves) and State's rights (meaning the US govt can't tell us it is wrong to own slaves).

The Republicans were saying we need to be one country and it was obvious that we were not and could not be a country of slave holders.