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    2018 Pro Democrat The Democratic Party, founded on January 8th, 1828, by president Andrew Jackson, who was in power from 1829 to 1837, is one of the two biggest political parties in the United States of America. The symbol of the political party is a Donkey and the supporters of it are called “Democrats”. The Democrats believe in a more liberal and progressive government institution and are more leftist than their opposing party – the Republicans. The Democratic Party believes in progressive

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    The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. It is traced back to the times of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's Democratic-Republican Party, the Democratic Party that we utilize to this day was founded in 1828 by Andrew Jackson, making it one of the world's oldest active political party. In the 21st century, the Democratic Party has been fighting for the gregarious and political equality of Hispanic and Latino

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    American to do so. Barbara represented the Democratic party. In her powerful speech, she addressed equality in everyone, response to change, and the future of America. “First, we believe in equality for all and privileges for none.” Barbara Jordan speaks numerous times about equality. She states that everyone is equal and there are no special privileges for any specific race. For decades, racism had been an issue. Barbara addresses that the Democratic party is inclusive to all people, regardless of

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    The historical role reversal between the Democratic and Republican parties is a much debated topic. There are questions on whether it actually did occur, if so, around what time period, and for what reasons. There, in fact, was a role reversal and it occurred sometime between the years 1928 and 1932. Reasons that may have sparked the switch could be disagreement among party members, major issue disputes such as economy, rights, or even money, all of which are evident in today 's society

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    had in the 1860s thanks to the ineffective implementation of the Reconstruction Acts by the Democrats, who did little to break down the facade of freedom that was given to the Blacks after the Civil War. Thomas Nast unveils the flaws of the Democratic party by portraying for his audience the outcome of the Reconstruction Acts and the misery that African Americans, especially Black Union Veterans such as the one in the cartoon, could not escape from. His intense passion for supporting freedmen, enabled

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    Democratic Party Failure

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    The Democratic party has become an unmitigated disaster, thanks the Third Way corporatist strategy implemented by president Obama and the Clintons. Under the leadership president Obama and former DNC chair debbie Wasserman Schultz the party has lost over 900 state Legislature seats, 69 house Seats, 13 Senate seats, and 12 governorships. The number of seats lost are unacceptable, despite the clear disaster many Democrats claim the Party is fine. The more intelligent establishment Democrats appear

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    In today's society, we think that the two main political parties of America, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are complete inverse. When we look closer, the several gatherings are as a matter of fact exceptionally comparative. Their strategies may be unexpected, but the roots that they are determined from are the same. . These two parties dominate America’s politics but differ significantly in their beliefs. Some instances, many beliefs overlap. So what are the differences between Democrats

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    Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties can be traced back to the early 1790s. Initially, the Federalists, or broad constructionists, favored the growth of federal power and a strong central government. The Federalists promulgated a loose interpretation of the Constitution, which meant that they believed that the government could do anything by the implied powers of the Constitution or that congress had the right to interpret the Constitution based on connotation. On the contrary, the Democratic-Republicans

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    In the state of Texas there are two different parties we have the Democrat and the republican. The democratic states consist of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. The democratic party is the oldest political party starting back when the first democratic president Andrew Jackson got elected. Jackson believed in very

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    many reasons Jefferson created the Democratic-Republic party. The Democratic-Republicans resisted the idea of a new federal constitution, they stood for states rights in opposition to a central Govt, and strict interpretation of the constitution. If we could, the people of 2016 America would vote for the Democratic-Republic party because of their stance on immigration, funding the national debt, and the Jay Treaty. The main idea of the Democratic-Republican party was, to represent the interest of

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