What does compartmentalization mean? The term is at the heart of the Great Seat Belt Debate. It was coined during the 1967 and 1972 Series 1 and Series 2 School Bus Passenger Protection collision tests conducted at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Opponents of the CDU are the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), The Left party and Alliance '90/The Greens. The CDU has however governed in three federal-level and numerous state-level Grand Coalitions with the SPD as well as in state and local-level coalitions with the Alliance '90/The Greens.
The party later split. Some scholars say that the Democrat Party grew from a branch headed by Andrew Jackson. Jackson, elected President in 1828, believed in a strict interpretation of the Constitution and a limitation of the government's powers. Today's Democratic Party takes a different stand. Democrats are sometimes referred to as the Party of the People, attracting immigrants, blue-collar workers, women, and minorities. Democrats tend to take a more liberal stand on important issues.