This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, March 10, 2016.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Radicals in 1830s New York took over the state's Democratic Party

and implemented their own declaration of principles,

rooted in the idea that government should respect the individual.

The Loco Focos, as they came to be known,

dramatically shifted the Democratic Party,

and for a time politics in the United States.

Anthony Comegna is assistant editor for intellectual history at Libertarianism.org.

We talked about the Loco Focos and their legacy today.

In the 1830s, a group known as the Loco Focos,

radical Democrats, took over the Democratic Party of New York. What were their grievances and you know why why

is it interesting to note to this this part of history.

So in the mid-1830s, Jackson's Bank War, the national level had, for all intents and purposes, been won.

But meaning that the National Bank was dead and its charter defunct.

He'd won the political battle on whether to re-charter the bank in the early part of the

decade and by the mid part of the bank in the early part of the decade and by the mid part of the decade more

radical Jeffersonian Democrats at the state and local level wanted to expand the

bank war to close the state banks as well, which of course had no connection to the

national government, but they were run by political coalitions at the state level and many Democrats were hesitant to give up their power

over these state banks.

So there was a division especially in the New York local party in the ranks of Tammany Hall

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