democratic (demokratik)

[= F. démo cratique = Sp. Pg. It. democratico (cf. D. demokratisch = G. demokratisch = Dan. Sw. demo kratisk ), The democratic theory is that those constitutions are likely to prove steadiest which have the broadest base, that the right to vote makes a safety-valve of every voter, and that the best way of teaching a man how to vote is to give him the chance of practice. Lowell , Democracy. 2. [cap.orl.c.] In U. S. politics , of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Democratic party; being a supporter of the Democratic party: as, a Democratic newspaper; the Democratic platform; a Democratic convention. He was democratic , not in the modern sense of the term, as never bolting a caucus nomination, and never thinking differently from the actual administration; but on principle, as founded in a strict, in contradistinction to a latitudinarian, construction of the constitution. T. H. Benton , Thirty Years, II. 188. 1527