Why are you arguing a Republican talking point instead of a Democratic one? Aren't you a Democrat? Don't you believe in Democracy? Methinks you are in the wrong party.
It's not a 'talking point,' it's a fundamental tenet of Constitutional law, and it belongs to all the people, not one party or political doctrine.
Democrats are supposed to be for Democracy. If your not then you're a hypocrite. Republicans are for the Republic.
LOL.....and where did you get that idea?
Why do they call themselves Democrats if they don't believe in Democracy?
The First Party System of the United States featured the
Federalist Party and the
Democratic-Republican Party (Anti-Federalist). The Federalist Party grew from Washington's
Secretary of the Treasury,
Alexander Hamilton, who favored a strong united central government, close ties to Britain, a centralized banking system, and close links between the government and men of wealth. The Democratic-Republican Party was founded by
James Madison and by Washington's Secretary of State,
Thomas Jefferson, who strongly opposed Hamilton's agenda.
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In 1829, the Second Party System saw a split of the Democratic-Republican Party into the
Jacksonian Democrats, who grew into the
modern Democratic Party, led by
Andrew Jackson, and the
Whig Party, led by
Henry Clay.
The Democrats supported the primacy of the Presidency over the other branches of government, and opposed the
Bank of the United States as well as modernizing programs that they felt would build up
industry at the expense of the
taxpayer.
The Whigs, on the other hand, advocated the primacy of
Congress over the
executive branch as well as policies of modernization and economic protectionism. Central political battles of this era were the
Bank War and the
Spoils system of federal patronage.
The Third Party System stretched from 1854 to the mid-1890s, and was characterized by the emergence of the anti-slavery
Republican Party, which adopted many of the economic policies of the Whigs, such as national banks, railroads, high tariffs, homesteads and aid to land grant colleges.
Civil war and
Reconstruction issues polarized the parties until the
Compromise of 1877, which ended the latter.