The Collaborative International Dictionary
Democratic \Dem`o*crat"ic\, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. d['e]mocratique.]
Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.
belonging to or relating to the Democratic party, the political party so called.
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Befitting the common people; -- opposed to aristocratic.
The Democratic party, the name of one of the chief political parties in the United States.
Note: Presidents of the United States who belonged to the Democratic party in the twentieth century were Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton.
Usage examples of "the democratic party".
There was something Napoleonic in the way the Chief went about his conquest of the Democratic Party.
Daily the nation is reminded that the Democratic party having once gone into rebellion might do so again.
But you also knew that the moment he said, yes, he would lose the South two years later, which he did when the Democratic Party cracked in half, thereby making it possible for you to become President, a minority President.
Baruch, the New York speculator who had bought himself a high place in the Democratic Party as money-giver to the President himself, in order to benefit from the exchange.
That made sense: they defended the status quo, which was what the Democratic Party stood for.
But no uncertainty attaches to the motives of Senator Atchison and the leaders of the Calhoun section of the Democratic party.
Though everyone hoped that the tragedy of 1976 was forever behind the senator I have determined that this morning's events have badly shaken the candidate, and I cannot in good conscience support the gentleman in his bid to secure the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.
One cusp at which these splits show is the Democratic National Convention of 1940 at which Mr Franklin Delano Roosevelt either was or was not nominated by the Democratic Party for a third term as President of the United States, then either was or was not elected, then either did or did not serve through to the end of the Second World War.
Roosevelt demoralized the remnants of the Democratic Party and most of them joined the Republicans or the Progressives.
He had begun his political career as Republican candidate for the House of Representatives from California's Sixth District, and only after he had lost that first election did he switch to the Democratic Party.