1836: Democrats: Martin Van Buren The Democrats were the successors of Jeffersonian democracy. They favored localism and freedom from modern institutions such as banks, factories, and reform ...

One of those five was the celebrated historian Jefferson Cowie of Vanderbilt University ... “We should focus on democracy.” Not just should—damn well better. Of the prospect of a Donald ...

"Our country is known as a beacon of democracy and Judge Jefferson Griffin, in our state, is on the front lines of dismantling that creed," North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Anderson Clayton ...