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Definition of Democratic-republican party
1. Noun. A former major political party in the United States in the early 19th century; opposed the old Federalist party; favored a strict interpretation of the constitution in order to limit the powers of the federal government.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Democratic-republican Party
Literary usage of Democratic-republican party
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Connecticut in Transition, 1775-1818 by Richard Joseph Purcell (1918)
"CHAPTER VI RISE OF THE democratic-republican party CONNECTICUT'S opposition party
was of late ^-^ birth. There had been a loyalist minority during the ..."
2. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"(See democratic-republican party, I.-III. ; DEMOCRATIC CLUBS. ... DEMOCRATIC -
REPUBLICAN PARTY, The (IN US HISTORY), the political party whose theory lias ..."
3. Reconstruction During the Civil War in the United States of America by Eben Greenough Scott (1895)
"Constituents of the Democratic-Republican Party (Anti- Federalists) — Principles
prevalent among the people, especially the agriculturists — Errors of the ..."
4. Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1902: Based by Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson (1901)
"The Democratic-Republican party divided into four parts in the ... An offshoot
of the Democratic-Republican party who opposed long terms of office, ..."
5. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1905)
"... of the Constitution and the Democratic-Republican party of Jefferson that had
its birth in a conflict over questions of Constitutional construction. ..."
6. A Dictionary of American Politics: Comprising Accounts of Political Parties by Everit Brown, Albert Strauss (1892)
"... to which mr»st of the prominent men of the time belonged, and from it the
Republican party, as the Democratic-Republican party was first called, ..."
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