^Ohio History Connection. Democratic-Republican Party. Ohio History Central. [2017-08-30]. (原始内容存档于2021-12-29). Democratic-Republicans favored keeping the U.S. economy based on agriculture and said that the U.S. should serve as the agricultural provider for the rest of the world […]. Economically, the Democratic-Republicans wanted to remain a predominantly agricultural nation, [...].
^Adams, Ian. Political Ideology Today reprinted, revised. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2001: 32 [2021-05-27]. ISBN 9780719060205. (原始内容存档于2021-12-16). Ideologically, all US parties are liberal and always have been. Essentially they espouse classical liberalism, that is a form of democratized Whig constitutionalism plus the free market. The point of difference comes with the influence of social liberalism.
^Democratic-Republican Party. Encyclopædia Britannica. 1998-07-20 [2017-08-30]. (原始内容存档于2018-06-15). The Republicans contended that the Federalists harboured aristocratic attitudes and that their policies placed too much power in the central government and tended to benefit the affluent at the expense of the common man.