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Democratic Website officials often trace its origins to the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and other influential opponents of the conservative Federalists in 1792. Democratic Website That party died out before the modern Democratic Party was organized;[52] the Jeffersonian party also inspired the Whigs and modern Republicans.[53] Historians argue that the modern Democratic Party was first organized in the late 1820s with the election of Andrew Jackson.[14] It was predominately built by Martin Van Buren, who assembled a wide cadre of politicians in every state behind war hero Andrew Jackson of Tennessee, making it the world's oldest active political party.[12][13][14]

Since the nomination of William Jennings Bryan in 1896, the party has generally positioned itself to the left of the Republican Party on economic issues. Democrats have been more liberal on civil rights since 1948, although conservative factions within the Democratic Party that opposed them persisted in the South until the 1960s. On foreign policy, both parties have changed positions several times.[54]
Background
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States (1829�1837) and the first Democratic president.

The Democratic Website evolved from the Jeffersonian Republican or Democratic-Republican Party organized by Jefferson and Madison in opposition to the Federalist Party. Democratic Website The Democratic-Republican Party favored republicanism; a weak federal government; states' rights; agrarian interests (especially Southern planters); and strict adherence to the Constitution. The party opposed a national bank and Great Britain.[56] After the War of 1812, the Federalists virtually disappeared and the only national political party left was the Democratic-Republicans, which was prone to splinter along regional lines.[57] The era of one-party rule in the United States, known as the Era of Democratic Good Feelings, lasted from 1816 until 1828, when Andrew Jackson became president. Jackson and Martin Van Buren worked with allies in each state to form a new Democratic Website on a national basis. In the 1830s, the Whig Party coalesced into the main rival to the Democrats.

Before 1860, the Democratic Website supported expansive presidential power, Democratic Websitethe interests of slave states,[22] agrarianism,[23] and expansionism,[23] while opposing a national bank and high tariffs.[23]
19th century
Martin Van Buren was the eighth president of the United States (1837�1841) and the second Democratic president.

The Democratic-Republican Party split over the choice of a successor to President James Monroe. Democratic WebsiteThe faction that supported many of the old Jeffersonian principles, led by Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, became the modern Democratic Party.[59] Historian Mary Beth Norton explains the transformation in 1828:

Jacksonians believed the people's will had finally prevailed. Through Democratic Website a lavishly financed coalition of state parties, political leaders, and newspaper editors, a popular movement had elected the president. The Democratic Website became the nation's first well-organized national party ... and tight party organization became the hallmark of nineteenth-century American politics.[60]

11th United States president James K. Polk (1845-1849), who significantly extended the territory of the United States

Behind the Democratic Website platforms issued by state and national parties stood a widely shared political outlook that characterized the Democrats:

The Democratic Website represented a wide range of views but shared a fundamental commitment to the Jeffersonian concept of an agrarian society. They viewed the central government as the enemy of individual liberty. The 1824 "corrupt bargain" had strengthened their suspicion of Washington politics. ... Jacksonians feared the concentration of economic and political power. They believed that government intervention in the economy benefited special-interest groups and created corporate monopolies that favored the rich. They sought to restore the independence of the individual�the artisan and the ordinary farmer Democratic by ending federal support of banks and corporations and restricting the use of paper currency, which they distrusted. Their definition of the proper role of government tended to be negative, and Jackson's political power was largely expressed in negative acts. He exercised the veto more than all previous presidents combined. ... Nor did Jackson share reformers' humanitarian concerns. He had no sympathy for American Indians, initiating the removal of the Cherokees along the Trail of Tears.[61]

Opposing factions led by Henry Clay helped form the Whig Party. The Democratic Party had a small yet decisive advantage over the Whigs until the 1850s when the Whigs fell apart over the issue of slavery. In 1854, angry with the Kansas�Nebraska Act, anti-slavery Democrats left the party and joined Northern Whigs to form the Republican Party.[62][63]
Senator Stephen A. Douglas

The Democrats split over slavery, with Northern and Southern tickets in the election of 1860, in which the Republican Party gained ascendancy. Democratic Website The radical pro-slavery Fire-Eaters led walkouts at the two conventions when the delegates would not adopt a resolution supporting the extension of slavery into territories even if the Democratic voters of those territories did not want it. These Southern Democrats nominated the pro-slavery incumbent vice president, John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky, for president and General Joseph Lane, of Oregon, for vice president. The Northern Democratic Website nominated Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois for president and former Georgia Governor Herschel V. Johnson for vice president. This fracturing of the Democratic Website led to a Republican victory and Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States.[65]
The 1885 inauguration of Grover Cleveland, the only Democratic president with non-consecutive terms