How does the Democratic Party view the political system?

* All Citizens have a right to participate equally in governing the nation. * Nations have a role in the process of achieving American equality. * Equality is a citizen's right and not something for only the privileged. * Privilege like slavery no longer exists. * Existence depends not on world domination, but on the will of All Citizens * The original democratic ideas were: * That, The South was entitled to more rights; * African-Americans were not citizens, but property * And that The Southern States had the right to secede