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 | | Its origin lay in the principles of local self-government and repugnance to social and political aristocracy established as cardinal tenets of American colonial democracy, which by the War of Independence, which was essentially a democratic movement, became the basis of the political institutions of the nation. |
 | | The evils of lax government, both central and state, under the Confederation caused, however, a marked anti-democratic reaction, and this united with the temperamental conservatism of the framers of the constitution of 1787 in the shaping of that conservative instrument. |
 | | It should be borne in mind, however, that the Dernocratrc party of Jackson was not,strictly identical with the Democratic-Republican party of Jefferson,and some writers date back the origin of the present Democratic party only to 1828-1829. |
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