The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Since the 1850s, its main political rival has been the Republican Party.
Martin Van Buren was the eighth president of the United States (1837–1841) and the second Democratic president.
James K. Polk was the 11th president of the United States (1845–1849). He significantly extended the territory of the United States.
Stephen A. Douglas was a United States senator for Illinois.
Social liberalism
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Social liberalism is a political philosophy and variety of liberalism that endorses social justice, social services, a mixed economy, and the expansion of civil and political rights, as opposed to classical liberalism which supports unregulated laissez-faire capitalism with very few government services.
Leonard Hobhouse was one of the originators of social liberalism, notably through his book Liberalism, published in 1911.
Thomas Hill Green
Friedrich Naumann