The Distinction of the Political Parties
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Initially calling itself the Republican Party, Jeffersonians were labeled Democratic by the opposition Federalists, with the hope of stigmatizing them as purveyors of democracy or mob rule. By the Jacksonian era, the term The Democracy was in use by the party the name Democratic Party was eventually settled upon and became the official name in 1844. Members of the party are called Democrats, Dems, Democrat. As we been referred as The Democrat Party.
