The Democratic Party of the United States…

The Democratic Party of the United States is organized on January 8, 1828.

Democratic Party officials trace its origins to the inspiration of the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and other influential opponents of the Federalist Party of Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, in 1792.

That party also inspired the Whigs and modern Republicans.

The party favors republicanism; a weak federal government; states' rights; agrarian interests (especially Southern planters); strict adherence to the Constitution; and it opposes a national bank, close ties to Great Britain and business and banking interests.

The Democratic-Republican Party had come to power in the election of 1800.

After the War of 1812, the Federalists virtually disappeared and the only national political party left was the Democratic-Republicans.

The era of one-party rule in the United States, known as the Era of Good Feelings, lasts from 1816 until the early 1830s, when the Whig Party becomes a national political group to rival the Democratic-Republicans.

However, the Democratic-Republican Party still had its own internal factions.

They had split over the choice of a successor to President James Monroe and the party faction that supported many of the old Jeffersonian principles, led by Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, becomes the modern Democratic Party.

Jackson had won a plurality of the electoral and popular vote in the 1824 election, but had lost the contingent election that was held in the House of Representatives.

In the aftermath of the election, Jackson's supporters had accused Adams and Henry Clay of having reached a "corrupt bargain" in which Clay helped Adams win the contingent election in return for the position of Secretary of State.

After the 1824 election, Jackson's supporters immediately began plans for a re-match in 1828.

As the once-dominant Democratic-Republican Party collapsed, Jackson and allies such as Martin Van Buren and Vice President John C. Calhoun had laid the foundations of the Democratic Party.