Jacksonian democracy

1. A movement for more democracy in American government in the 1830s. Led by President Andrew Jackson, this movement championed greater rights for the common man and was opposed to any signs of aristocracy in the nation. Jacksonian democracy was aided by the strong spirit of equality among the people of the newer settlements in the South and West. It was also aided by the extension of the vote in eastern states to men without property; in the early days of the United States, many places had allowed only male property owners to vote. (Compare Jeffersonian democracy.)

Example Sentences

It is Jacksonian democracy run amok.

From Salon

And at points, such as during the age of Jacksonian democracy, democratic expansion for some demanded democratic retrenchment for others.

From New York Times

So for example, the Thomsonian medical freedom movement was very closely associated with Jacksonian democracy.

From Slate

Webb, for example, coined the name "Whig" for the political party his newspaper helped organize in the 1830s with commercial and mercantile interests, largely in response to the emergence of Jacksonian democracy.

From Salon

And the man who inspired the term “Jacksonian Democracy” added two more justices in 1837.

From Washington Post