Democratic-Republican

[dem-uh-krat-ik-ri-puhb-li-kuhn]

adjective

U.S. History.

1. of or relating to the Democratic-Republican Party.

Example Sentences

It was not either party but the Democratic-Republican duo of Johnson and Nixon that created the problems of the 1970s economy.

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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.

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Then there was John Adams, a Federalist who was the nation’s second president, and Thomas Jefferson, its third and a Democratic-Republican.

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

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“If you divide the Democratic vote by four and somebody is able to become the dominant Republican, you increase the chances you have a Democratic-Republican runoff” in November, Carrick said.

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