Democratic-Republican
adjective
Note: The Democratic-Republican party is the direct antecedent of the current Democratic Party (see democratic sense 1) and was the first opposition (see opposition sense 5b) political party in the U.S. It was organized in 1792 under the name of "the Republican Party," and its members held power nationally between 1801 and 1825.
Examples of Democratic-Republican in a Sentence
Carl Leubsdorf, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
The president’s and Hamilton’s Federalist ideals win out, with Jefferson’s Democratic-Republican leanings pushed aside.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 24 Sep. 2024
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, and their Democratic-Republican and Federalist parties, battled out the idea war of their day in openly partisan gazettes.
—Michael Watson, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2024
This rare Democratic-Republican consensus that the United States ought to pivot its attention to New Delhi should allow India to remain at the forefront of U.S. strategy in Asia for decades to come.
—Nicholas Burns, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2014
Previously, congressional caucuses, a party’s members in the Congress, had selected nominees for the Democratic-Republican and Federalist parties.
—TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
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