Democratic-Republican Party
[ dem-uh-krat-ik-ri-puhb-li-kuhn pahr-tee ]
nounU.S. History.
a political party opposed to the Federalist party and advocating states’ rights, active from the 1790s to the 1820s.
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How to use Democratic-Republican Party in a sentence
He was many years a prominent leader of the old democratic republican party.
British Dictionary definitions for Democratic-Republican Party
Democratic-Republican Party
noun
US history the antifederalist party originally led by Thomas Jefferson, which developed into the modern Democratic Party
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