Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party (English: Democratic Party), is one of two major political parties in the United States. The other is the Republican party. The Democratic Party was founded in 1792 . In the 20th century brought the party Presidents like Woodrow Wilson, Franklin d. Roosevelt, John f. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton on. Onnovember 4, 2008 was the candidate of the Democratic Party, senator Barack Obama, elected president. On 20 January 2009, he took the oath as the 44th President of the United States. He was re-elected In 2012 .

The mascot of the party is traditionally the donkey.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == In 1792, by Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic Republican party, because in the United States Congress a two section was created by supporters and opponents of inclusion of the Bill of Rights in the u.s. Constitution. Thomas Jefferson and his new party wanted to not ratify the Constitution without the rights described. Ultimately, the Bill of Rights as an addition to the Constitution was adopted.
 * 2 Factions
 * 3 Democratic Presidents
 * 4 Democratic Vice Presidents
 * 5 external links

The party ruled until 1820 and afterwards separated the Whig Party itself and became the party renamed the Democratic Party. Between 1833 and existed the opposition mainly from the 1856 Whig party. The main opposition came from 1856 of the Republican party.

The power base of the Democratic Party lay in the South, and after the civil war she was condemned to the opposition for decades. From 1850 onwards moved the Democratic Party in the political spectrum of center-right to center-left. The Republicans shifted in that period of center-left to center-right. There is therefore also said that both parties "by hand, exchanged" during their existence. The cause lies in the fact that American parties and the Democratic Party in particular, many times factioneler than most parties in the rest of the world and contain many so-called caucussen, which by far left to walk right on the political spectrum.

In 1913 came the Democrats returned to power in Washington after a long time with the election of Woodrow Wilson and during the reign of Franklin d. Roosevelt have they ruled for a long time and moved the power base to the coastal areas and the cities. That led to tensions with the very conservative rank and file of the Democratic Party in the South. In 1948 was the Democratic Governor of South Carolina Strom Thurmond presidential candidate for the "States Rights Democratic Party", better known as the Dixiecrats, a separation from the Democratic Party that racial segregation was active along the lines of the National Party in South Africa. Thurmond knew the States Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina to get behind. The Democratic president Harry Truman was by this division only narrowly re-elected.

The following period was characterised by an emerging civil rights movement and the end of segregation. In particular, the social policy developed by Yarborough underJohn f. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson has contributed to a more social and open society. At the end of the 20th century, the party has still allowed to supply two Presidents. The Democratic Party lost its Southern Democratic rank and file, and then do one more openly progressive rate. ==Factions[ Edit] == Given the size of the party and the fact that the US is a de facto two-party system, it is not surprising that the Democratic Party knows no ideological unity. The party is divided into various factions, ranging from social-liberal to conservative. The last decades the party dominated by Center-and social-liberal-oriented politicians. In the us, the Democratic Party often referred to as "Liberal" (Liberal). In contrast to Europe are ' Liberals ' in America on the left of the political spectrum. The Democratic Party also knows, however, factions that politics more in the middle or to the right of the middle stand. The most important of them are Democrats for Life("Democrats for life") and the Conservative Democrats (conservative Democrats).

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==Democratic Presidents<span class="mw-editsection" len="371" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"><sup len="1" style="line-height:1;">1  Andrew Johnson was a Democrat but was as the running mate of Republican presidential candidate Vice President Abraham Lincoln in 1864 under the name of the Union Party. <sup len="1" style="line-height:1;">2  Died during term ==Democratic Vice Presidents<span class="mw-editsection" len="375" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="26" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">† Died during term
 * Progressive Democrats (Progressive Democrats): the dominant faction within the Democratic Party. The Progressive Democrats are not immediately wary of intervention by the State in the economic life. In addition, they are in favour of abortion, rights for homosexuals (registered partnership) and to counter the racism in the us. The Progressive Democrats are supported by the trade unions. The best known Progressive Democrat is John Edwards, who in 2004 and in 2008 candidate for President.
 * Liberal Democrats (Liberal Democrats): they are slightly to the right of the Progressive Democrats. They are opposed to a bellicose foreign policy and free trade. Barack Obama won in 2008 the presidential electionwho belongs to the Liberal Democrats<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="308" style="line-height:1;">[source? ].
 * Religious Left (Religious left): Chris toes with pronounced left-wing ideas. They form a small faction within the Democratic Party. They are in favour of a social policy and follows the ethical area progressive andliberal Democrats. That means that they are not dismissive of abortion or equal rights for homosexuals. Most supporters are practicing members of the large Christian churches ( Methodist andEpiscopal Church,Roman Catholic Church), but nowadays also feel Evangelicals are attracted to the Democratic Party, especially to the social aspect. Well-known leaders of Religious Left his ds. Jesse Jackson (presidential candidate in 1984 and in 1988) and ds. Al Sharpton.
 * Moderate Democrats (Moderate Democrats): from 1993 to 2005, the Democratic Party dominated the Moderate Democrats. They are called New Democrats (New Democrats). The moderate democrats are generally in favour of a strong army, before the US presence in Iraq and before more social facilities and a business-friendly climate. Bill Clinton (president of the United States between 1993 and 2001) and his wife Hillary Clinton are the best known New Democrats.
 * Democrats for Life (Democrats for life): they are against abortion, euthanasia and the death penalty, other forms of termination of life. Most factions within the Democratic Party are for abortion and proponent of the death penalty (whether or not limited to convicts of capital). Many Democrats for Life are practicing Roman Catholics.
 * Conservative Democrats (Conservative Democrats): Democrats that are most related to the Republican party. The Conservative Democrats form a small faction within the Democratic Party and have especially following in the southern States. They regard themselves as the original Democrats (opponents of the first Republican president Abraham Lincoln). Traditionally are the "Southern" Democrats always supportedsegregation, but that they are now no longer. In addition, they are fiscally and socially conservative and against abortion, gay marriage and stem cell research and the death penalty and in favour of the protectionism.A number of Conservative Democrats is akin to the Democrats for Life. The influence of the Conservative Democrats within the Democratic Party is increasing. All the leading Conservative Democrats in the U.s. Congress are from the southern States.
 * Libertarian Democrats (Libertarian Democrats): opponents of State influence and military interventionism and proponents of the right to carrying a firearm and a strict separation of Church and State. Their counterparts within the Republican party are much more influential.
 * 1) Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
 * 2) Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)
 * 3) James Knox Polk (1845-1849)
 * 4) Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)
 * 5) James Buchanan (1857-1861)
 * 6) Andrew Johnson (1865-1869) <sup len="1" style="line-height:1;">1
 * 7) Stephen Grover Cleveland (1885-1889, 1893-1897)
 * 8) Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
 * 9) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945) <sup len="1" style="line-height:1;">2
 * 10) Harry S. Truman (1945-1953)
 * 11) John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1961-1963) <sup len="1" style="line-height:1;">2
 * 12) Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963-1969)
 * 13) James Earl Carter (1977-1981)
 * 14) William Jefferson Clinton (1993-2001)
 * 15) Barack Hussein Obama (2009-present)
 * 1) Martin Van Buren (1833-1837)
 * 2) George Mifflin Dallas (1845-1849)
 * 3) William Rufus Devane King (1853) †
 * 4) John Cabell Breckinridge (1857-1861)
 * 5) Andrew Johnson (1865)
 * 6) Thomas Andrew Hendricks (1885) †
 * 7) Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1893-1897
 * 8) Thomas Riley Marshall (1913-1921
 * 9) John Nance Garner (1933-1941)
 * 10) Henry Agard Wallace (1941-1945)
 * 11) Harry S. Truman (1945)
 * 12) Alben William Barkley (1949-1953)
 * 13) Lyndon Baines Johnson (1961-1963)
 * 14) Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1965-1969)
 * 15) Walter Frederick Mondale (1977-1981)
 * 16) Albert Arnold Gore (1993-2001)
 * 17) Joseph Robinette Biden (2009-present)