question: Alfred Goldthwaite was an attorney for the party that traces its roots to whom?
answer: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
context: Title: British Columbia Sheriff Service
  Passage: British Columbia Sheriff Service (BCSS) traces its roots to the first Sheriff appointed by Governor James Douglas in 1857 for the Colony of Vancouver Island in what is now British Columbia, Canada.  Governor Douglas appointed Andrew Muir who derived his authority from English common law and who holds the distinction of being the first sworn Peace Officer in what is now the Province of British Columbia.  The modern BCSS was formed after a consolidation of County Sheriffs by the New Democratic government in 1974, and placed under the Ministry of the Attorney General.
  Title: Alfred Goldthwaite
  Passage: Alfred Witherspoon Goldthwaite, Sr. (August 12, 1921–May 13, 1997), was an attorney from his native Montgomery, Alabama, who as a member of the Alabama House of Representatives became the first public official in his state to defect in the early 1960s from the Democratic to the Republican Party.
  Title: Robert G. Carter
  Passage: Robert Goldthwaite Carter (October 29, 1845 – January 4, 1936) was a US Cavalry officer who participated in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars, most notably against the Comanche during which he received the Medal of Honor for his role against a Comanche raiding party at Brazos River in Texas on October 10, 1871.
  Title: Socialist Roots Sound System
  Passage: Socialist Roots Hi-Fi was a prominent Jamaican reggae sound system and record label owned by Tony Welch (aka Papa Roots) in the 1970s and early 1980s.  It was originally named King Attorney (and before that Soul Attorney).  The name changed in 1976 when Welch bought the set.  Regular deejays included Ranking Trevor, U Brown, Jah Mikey and Nicodemus, alongside the regular selector Danny Dreadlocks.  They received dub cuts from Bob Marley & The Wailers.  After 1981, the group was known as Papa Roots Hi-Fi.
  Title: Democratic Party (United States)
  Passage: The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party.  Tracing its heritage back to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's Democratic-Republican Party, the modern-day Democratic Party was founded around 1828 by supporters of Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest political party.
  Title: Rapoport-Bick (rabbinic dynasty)
  Passage: The Rapoport-Bick dynasty was the most important of all the non-chasidic rabbinic dynasties of Medzhybizh, in Ukraine.  The Rapoport dynasty traces its roots back to Rabbi Jacob Emden (1697–1776) who was involved in the Frankist debates of 1757 and his father Rabbi Tsvi Hirsh Ashkenazi, known as the "Chacham Tsvi" (1660–1718).  The Rapoports themselves are a long distinguished rabbinic family that traces its roots back to Central Europe and Northern Italy in the 15th century.
citations: Alfred Goldthwaite Democratic Party (United States)