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Democratic-Republican

American  
[dem-uh-krat-ik-ri-puhb-li-kuhn] / ˌdɛm əˈkræt ɪk rɪˈpʌb lɪ kən /

adjective

U.S. History.
  1. of or relating to the Democratic-Republican Party.


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The Democratic-Republican Party of Thomas Jefferson supported the name change.

From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2025

Twenty-four years later, the term “gerrymander” was coined when the Democratic-Republican Party drew a salamander-shaped state Senate district to benefit Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2025

“Middling” people such as artisans, shopkeepers, mechanics and small merchants formed an important part of Thomas Jefferson’s Democratic-Republican Party.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

Then 2024 might bring the most dramatically nonbinary election since the Democratic-Republican framing of presidential politics began in 1856.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023

The consolidated factions of the Anti-Federalists, however, increased their ardor for the French republic, and took from 1792 the name Democratic-Republican.

From The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut by Maria Louise Greene

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