Democratic-Republican Party
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- noun
- /ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk rɪˈpʌblɪkən ˈpɑrti/
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Partido Demócrata-Republicano
- During the early 1800s, the Democratic-Republican Party emerged as a significant force in American politics, championing states' rights over federal authority.
Examples
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In the early 19th century, the Democratic-Republican Party played a key role in American politics by opposing the Federalist Party.
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In some tellings, the Democrats prefer to trace their roots back a little further to the party of Thomas Jefferson, which called itself the Democratic-Republican Party.
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Have you seen the latest from the Kentucky Democratic Republican Party?
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In the early 19th century, Jefferson's party, the Democratic-Republican Party, split.
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Jefferson was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, an ancestor to both the current Republican and Democratic parties.
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Most Democratic-Republican Party members never insisted that freedom of speech and the press should be unlimited, but they denied the national government's power over it because of the First Amendment.
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and subsequently the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 triggered an internal revolt within the Democratic-Republican Party.
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The first instance of divided government occurred in 1792 when Federalist President George Washington was reelected and Thomas Jefferson's Democratic-Republican Party won a nine-seat majority in the House.
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To combat the rise of the Federalist agenda of the federal government in the late 1780s, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison led a breakaway faction to form a rival political party known as the United States Democratic-Republican Party.
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The Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson, advocated for limiting federal government power through a strict interpretation of the Constitution.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Democratic-Republican + party
The headword clearly names a political organization: 'party' indicates a political group and the adjectives 'Democratic' + 'Republican' signal ideological labels, so a learner who knows those words would infer it denotes a kind of political party. However, the specific historical reference (a distinct early-19th-century U.S. party with particular stances and opposition to the Federalists) cannot be derived from the constituents alone, so the transparency is only partial.
Etymology
The Democratic-Republican Party was named by joining Democratic, meaning 'rule by the people', and Republican, meaning 'no king', to show support for government by ordinary people and a republic. That's why the party wanted to 'limit the power' of the national government and give more power to the states.