Democratic-Republican Societies
The Democratic-Republican Societies were radical political organizations in the United States which, inspired by the French Revolution, promoted republicanism and democracy and fought against aristocratic ¬ tendencies in the nascent country. The first society was founded in Philadelphia in 1793, and these societies, owing much to the model of the Jacobin Club, preached equal justice, the dissemination of political information to combat ignorance, freedom of speech, press, and the assembly. Většina jejích členů byli bývalí „antifederalisté“, kteří se postavili proti US Constitution, a také zahrnovala nesouhlasné učitele a teology, kteří se snažili vytvořit více progressive, humanitární a osvícenou společnost. Zatímco většina společností byla městských, tři se zformovaly na Pennsylvania's western frontier and helped to trigger the Whiskey Rebellion, čímž vyvolal hněv prezidenta George Washington, který obvinil tajné společnosti ze vzpour. After the failure Whiskey Rebellion, the "Citizen Genet affair", and the start of Quasi-War in 1796, most of the Democratic-Republican Societies disbanded.