But Patrick Henry was one of the Anti-Federalists, a faction that eventually became the Democratic Party.
But, at the time there was no 'rat party, and he was concerned of the potential largesse that would become a national government - elements of today's 'Rat party. Only irony that he would be part of the early 'Rat party of the day.
In the debate over the Constitution he was an anti-Federalist and he didn't trust the Federalist Party in the early years.
By the time Patrick Henry died, though, he had turned to the Federalists and been elected to the Virginia House of Delegates as a Federalist.