Journal article

Publication year: 2023

Pages: 141-168

Journal: Journal of Early American History: Colonizing the Americas, 1500–1830

Volume number: 13

Issue number: 2-3

ISSN: 1877-0223

eISSN: 1877-0703

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-13020003

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers

Abstract: 
Against those who argue that the term democracy only became a broadly positive term in the 19th century, this artide shows that it already had become a positive political term in the 1790s in the USA. With the Jeffersonian revolution, groups that used democracy positively triumphed over the anti-democratic Federalists. By transforming the connotation of the word democracy, however, Democratic Republicans also transformed the concept/theory associated with it - from radical direct democracy to a representative system.

Harvard Citation style: Dingeldey, P. (2023) The Jeffersonian Republicans and the Democratic Movement, Journal of Early American History: Colonizing the Americas, 1500–1830, 13(2-3), pp. 141-168. https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-13020003

APA Citation style: Dingeldey, P. (2023). The Jeffersonian Republicans and the Democratic Movement. Journal of Early American History: Colonizing the Americas, 1500–1830. 13(2-3), 141-168. https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-13020003