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/dˌɛməkrˈætɪk/ Listen

adjective

Democratic adj.

Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.

Belonging to or relating to the Democratic party, the political party so called.

Befitting the common people; opposed to aristocratic.

The Democratic party, the name of one of the chief political parties in the United States. Note: Presidents of the United States who belonged to the Democratic party in the twentieth century were Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton.

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"Democratic" Quotes from Famous Books

... these new societies and others to be created will have dominated their districts, and political power will follow, and we will have new political ideals based on a democratic control of agriculture and industry, and states and people will move harmoniously to a ...

— What's the Matter with Ireland? • Ruth Russell

... You know, missionary-school native going back to the village wearing real pants, to show off to the savages. Used to be a standing joke, down where I came from." MacLeod thought for a moment. "And Rudolf: he's always had a poor view of the democratic system of government. He might feel more at home with the Komintern. Of course, the Ruskis killed ...

— The Mercenaries • Henry Beam Piper

... both indiscriminately mingled. Propelling a gufa was an art in itself, for in the hands of the uninitiated it merely spun around without advancing a foot in the desired direction. The natives used long round-bladed paddles, and made good time across the river. Crossing over in one was a democratic affair, especially when the women were returning from market with knots of struggling ...

— War in the Garden of Eden • Kermit Roosevelt

... aristocratic training of a Virginia environment, placed no qualification for suffrage or office in his ordinance. The Ordinance of 1787, presumably drafted under democratic New England ideas, placed a qualification of ownership of two hundred acres of land upon a representative in the territorial legislature and of fifty acres upon an elector for a representative. Here was an ...

— The United States of America Part I • Ediwn Erle Sparks

... University—a struggle from which he retired defeated, but made famous and prepared for wider fields by the publicity which he had won by the conflict—a sort of miniature representation of this antithesis between the people and big business and they had learned to regard Mr. Wilson as a fighter for democratic principles against aristocratic tendencies and ...

— Woodrow Wilson's Administration and Achievements • Frank B. Lord and James William Bryan

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