Democratic-Republican Party (United States)

The "Democratic-Republican Party" is the label given by historians to one of the first two American political parties. Contemporaries referred to it as simply the "Republican Party"; historians call it the "Democratic-Republican Party" or the "Jeffersonian Republicans" to distinguish it from the modern Republican Party. The name "Democratic-Republican" was actually used briefly in American politics to describe a contemporary political faction: in the time of Andrew Jackson, when the Republican Party was splintering into factions, "Democratic-Republican" was used to refer to Jackson's supporters within the Republican Party. These supporters would soon organize themselves into a new political party: the Democratic Party.

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American - Political parties - Modern Republican Party - Andrew Jackson - Democratic Party

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