Republicans
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republicans · the republican party
in the texts
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The Jeffersonian republican political party, credited with the constitutional triumphs of 1800-1 and with original opposition to the Bank of the United States.
We have even seen the purest triumphs of the republican party in 1800–1, (when an alien and sedition law were shivered into atoms by an indignant people,) almost forgotten.
—That gigantick institution, the Bank of the United States, which, while yet in the green tree, was proclaimed by the republicans a breach of the constitution, “stands now upon its bond;
The Game of Logic
One of the two American political parties mentioned in the fence-sitting analogy.
Our ingenious American cousins have invented a phrase to express the position of a man who wants to join one or the other of two parties--such as their two parties 'Democrats' and 'Republicans'--but can't make up his mind WHICH.