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| | United States Democratic Party Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography |
 | | Civil libertarians often support the Democratic Party because its positions on such issues as civil rights and separation of church and state are more closely aligned to their own than are the positions of the Republican Party, and because the Democrats' economic agenda may be more appealing to them than that of the Libertarian Party. |
 | | By the election of 1828, the unified party had broken into two pieces, one became the National Republican Party, and backed the incumbent President, and the other, termed the "Democrats", after their insistence that the President held a national mandate from the people, backed Andrew Jackson. |
 | | Of the two major U.S. parties, the Democratic Party is to the left of the Republican Party, though its politics are not as consistently leftist as the traditional social democratic and labor parties in much of the rest of the world. |
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