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Is it Democrat or Democratic? Both words, in this instance, are capitalized because they refer to the Democratic Party. Before answering the question posed, we must first review our fourth-grade grammar, then examine the context in which these words are used and why they are very often confused by certain advocacy journalists and members of a political party. My fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Gates, taught us that a noun is a person, place, thing or idea. So a democrat (noun) is someone who believes in a democratic (adjective) form of government (a democracy). Mrs. Gates also taught us that an adjective is a word that modifies or explains a noun, so in the following sentence: "Former librarian of the Library of Congress, Daniel Boorstein, was a champion of democratic principles," the word "democratic" is, of course, an adjective that modifies the noun "principles" (remember that a noun is a person, place, thing, or idea) "principles" is an idea (sometimes called an abstract noun).