The Difference Between a Co-Owner and a Partner in Business. Co-owner and partner have different meanings in business and under the law. BananaStock/BananaStock/Getty Images. The terms âco-ownerâ and âpartnerâ differ in a number of ways with respect to the ownership of a business.
1 On the natural man ideal of the Democratic party, see John William Ward, Andrew Jackson, Symbol for an Age (New York: Oxford University Press, 1955); on the Whig personality type, see Daniel Walker Howe, The Political Culture of the American Whigs (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979).
Democrats -- General Lewis Cass (believed in popular sovereignty) The Whigs -- Zachary Taylor The Free Soil Party -- Martin Van Buren (a former president who condemned slavery) Why Important? Neither the Democrats or the Whigs wanted to discuss slavery, so the Free Soil Party formed and ran Van Buren.