Democratic party
Introduction
Democratic party, American political party; the oldest continuous political party in the United States.
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- The Dominant Party
- The 1960s to the Present
- The New Freedom and New Deal
- From the Civil War to Bryan
- Origins in Jeffersonian Democracy
- Bibliography
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