dsws -
Well, you could certainly make an argument for the "Revolution of 1800" when Jefferson was elected. Jefferson had a Utopian dream of America peopled by simple, upright farmers. His republicans (or as historians now call them for the most part "Democratic-Republicans") were really anti-Federalists, and the Federalists stood for (according to their detractors) aristocracy and elitism, while the Jeffersonians stood for democracy and republicanism (and, by extension, the "common man").
But Jackson was really the first one to use it, campaign-wise. Or, to be more accurate, Martin Van Buren, the "Little Magician," did.
My own favorite grammatical note: "privilege" comes from two Latin words for "private" and "law" -- that's what the word was formed for: "private law." Makes all kinds of sense, don't it?
:-)
-CW
