Definition of turnbuckle. : a device that usually consists of a link with screw threads at both ends, that is turned to bring the ends closer together, and that is used for tightening a rod or stay.
Such splintering had not yet led to formal party organization, but later the faction led by Andrew Jackson would evolve into the Democratic Party, while the factions led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay would become the National Republican Party and later the Whig Party.
The Democrat-Republican Party was founded by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and contemporaries approximately in 1792. It was reformulated after the War of 1812 as the modern â¦ Democratic Party by Andrew Jackson and Martin van Buren after the party split over who would succeed President Monroe.