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Article: JEFFERSONIAN IDEOLOGY AND THE SECOND PARTY SYSTEM.(Review)
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- September 22, 1999
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From the demise in 1815 of Federalism, the political faction favoring a strong central government, to the rise of the slavery question in the 1850s, American political history was characterized by bitter partisan warfare on the part of the Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson and the Whigs. In a remarkable departure from past and future party development, however, both of these parties understood their respective coalitions to have originated from a common ideological source, namely, Thomas Jefferson. No other American president or political party has engendered the kind of ideological flexibility promoted by Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic-Republican Party.
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