Starself Astrology Newsletter for March - Where'd all this fog come from?

[icymist]

38. I would say that the Dem party started with the ratification of the Jay Treaty, June 24, 1795...

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In which Jeffersonians hotly contested (this treaty) which they saw as giving Britian too much. In reponse they formed the Jeffersonian Republican party, also know as the party of Jefferson, which favored France. This was later renamed the Democratic -Republican party by historians in order to distinguish it from the modern Republican party, also know as the party of Lincoln. The Democratic -Republican party split during the 1824 election as that outcome was thrown to the US Congress where Speaker Clay backed John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson to win the presidency. It was at Jackson's convention in 1832 that the party that referred to itself as the Republican party would later, in the mid 1830's change its' name to the Democratic party. In 1844 the name became offical.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Treaty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic-Republican_Party_(United_States)#Party_name

I would use the date of June 24, 1795 as the birth of the Jeffersonian party that would later be known as the Democratic party. Does this make any sense?