Democratic-Republican Societies

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Democratic-Republican Societies were local political organizations formed in the United States in 1793-94 to promote republicanism and democracy and to fight aristocratic tendencies. Historians use the term Democratic-Republican to describe the societies, but the societies rarely ever used the name Democratic-Republican. They called themselves Democratic, Republican, True Republican, Constitutional, United Freeman, Patriotic, Political, Franklin, and Madisonian.