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Ads by Google      Democratic Party: Definition and Much More From Answers.com The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States. The Party is currently (as of 2005) the minority party in the United States Senate, United States House of Representatives, and governorships. In the early 20th century, the traditional symbol of the Democratic Party in Midwestern states such as Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio was the rooster, as opposed to the Republican eagle. http://www.answers.com/topic/democratic-party   (7963 words)      Connecticut's Heritage Gateway The followers of Andrew Jackson had already organized the Democratic party in several states in the 1820s before a group of young men, led by Gideon Welles, did the same thing in Connecticut. The Democratic party suffered massive defections when it sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed slavery in those territories. The party then began to grow, and by 1836 was strong enough to deliver the state's electoral votes to Martin Van Buren, the Democratic candidate for president. http://www.ctheritage.org/encyclopedia/ct1818_1865/twopartysys.htm   (605 words)      Encyclopedia article on United States Republican Party [EncycloZine] Since its inception, its chief opposition has been the Democratic Party. For the older Republican Party, which is now known as the Democratic Republican Party, see United States Democratic-Republican Party. It also actively courts members of the United States Libertarian Party to get its members to join the Republican Party and this faction to increase the voice of libertarianism within the party. http://encyclozine.com/United_States_Republican_Party   (605 words)      Party History - Old Site The time is ripe now for the Party to emerge as the strongest political party in the United States. The Party controlled the State Senate, the Assembly, the majority of the delegation to the House of Representatives, one United States Senate seat and the Governorship. The Party captured a United States Senate seat, control of both state houses, and all executive offices except the Secretary of State. http://www.kintera.org/site/pp.asp?c=fvLRK7O3E&b=33602   (1347 words)      Whig Party (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Whig Party was a political party of the United States from 1834 to 1860, formed to oppose the policies of President Andrew Jackson, a Democrat, and in particular supporting the supremacy of Congress over the Executive Branch and favoring a program of modernization and economic development. In its early form the Whig Party was united only by opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson, especially his removal of the deposits from the Bank of the United States without the consent of Congress. List of political parties in the United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Whig_Party   (1591 words)      Grover Norquist - The Republican Party's prophet of permanence. By Chris Suellentrop With one party states come abridgement of freedoms. If there weren't a near-majority Democratic Party, Norquist wouldn't be able to keep prophesying its doom. His fear of what the terrifying power of the state would be like under complete Democratic control explains his willingness to make a rare departure from the GOP line to oppose the Patriot Act. http://www.slate.com/id/2085277   (1444 words)      History 221 Supplementary Materials 2 In 1848, the Democratic Party was hurt by the development of a third party, the Free Soil Party. The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the subsequent development of the Republican Party had a drastic impact upon the bisectional equilibrium of the Democratic Party. Various factors, issues, and events weakened the party's ability to act as a bisectional "cord of Union" until the party's status as a true national institution was destroyed at the 1860 Charleston Convention. http://www.middlesex.cc.nj.us/faculty/John_Kruszewski/221supplementary2.html   (1558 words)      Politics1 - Guide to American Political Parties In the 1998 elections, longtime CPUSA leader Hall actually urged party members to vote for all of the Democratic candidates for Congress -- arguing that voting for any progressive third party candidates would undermine the efforts to oust the "reactionary" Republicans from control of Congress. The party "is founded on the basic principals set forth by our founding fathers, that the federal government should only have the powers set forth in the framework of the Constitution and all other power to be delegated back to the states. The party -- which used to field a sizable amount of state and local candidates in the 1970s -- rarely fields more than a handful of nominees nationwide in recent years, although they do claim local affiliates in 15 states. http://www.politics1.com/parties.htm   (1558 words)      Political Resources on the Net - USA (I) People for a Unified North America (PUNA) Its goals are to bring the entire North American continent under one Democratic government Liberal Party of Minnesota New Democratic Socialist for a new age Freedom Party of the United States of America Affiliated with Freedom Party International http://www.politicalresources.net/usa1.htm   (1558 words)      U.S. states L-M U-D = Union-Democratic Party (conservative, pro-Union, opposed civil rights for slaves, 1860-1868); Whg = Whig Party (pro-federal govt., anti-Jacksonian, 1834-1854/60) - Former parties: AJP = Anti-Jackson Party; anti-Fed = Anti-Federalist Party (pro-states rights, 1781-1796); AP = American Party (nativist, 1853-1860, informally K-N); Party abbreviations: Dem = Democratic Party (liberal, formerly D-R); DFL = Democratic-Farmer- http://www.worldstatesmen.org/US_states_L-M.html   (5797 words)      CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Knownothingism In Congress efforts were made to restrict the benefits of the Homestead Laws to those who were actual citizens of the United States, and the old-time proposal to extend the period of residence to twenty-one years before a person could be admitted to citizenship was constantly agitated. Opposed to them in that election were the Democratic party and the newly organized Republican party, both of whom had expressed their dissent from Native American principles. In the legislatures of some of the states bills were proposed to authorize the visitation and inspection of convents and other religious institutions by state officials, and in Massachusetts, in 1854, such a law, known as the Nunneries Inspection Bill, was actually passed. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08677a.htm   (3150 words)      MSN Encarta - Republican Party Support for black rights waned when Republicans perceived that this support was costing the party needed votes, but even this did not help the party in the South, where the blacks were disfranchised and the whites for the most part remained Democratic. In 1860 their candidate, Abraham Lincoln, was elected to the presidency; the Southern states reacted by seceding from the Union, and the country was plunged into the Civil War (1861-1865). Republicans controlled most elective offices in the Northern states during the war, and for a generation afterward they were able to make full use of patriotic fervor to denounce the Democrats as traitors and friends of the South. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761568416/Republican_Party.html   (1132 words)      home The United States believes that the best way forward for Ethiopia is through full participation of all political groups in the democratic process, including for elected members of the opposition to take their seats in parliament and to assume the administration of the city of Addis Ababa. The United States deplores the political violence in Ethiopia and urges all parties to prevent actions that could directly or indirectly incite violence, harm individuals, or lead to the destruction of public or private property. The United States calls on the Government of Ethiopia to take the actions outlined in that statement. http://ethiopia.usembassy.gov   (1555 words)      Political Parties in the 1850's: the essay The Whig party had always been a coalition of diverse interests united in opposition to the Democrats, and they were finding it harder than ever to find common ground among themselves. By 1855, the year after the Kansas-Nebraska Act, there were no more Whigs, as those who once belonged to that party became Free-Soilers, Know-Nothings, or even Democrats, and by the late years of the decade the North was almost all Republican and the South almost all Democratic. An editorial in the Northern Whig Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune insisted that the Missouri Compromise must be honored and that if Kansas and Nebraska were to be made states, they must be free states. http://home.nycap.rr.com/snorktopia/bigdbq/essay.htm   (1033 words)      CIA - The World Factbook -- United States Democratic Party [Terence McAULIFFE]; Green Party [leader NA]; Libertarian Party [Steve DASBACH]; Republican Party [Edward GILLESPIE] Supreme Court (its nine justices are appointed for life on condition of good behavior by the president with confirmation by the Senate); United States Courts of Appeal; United States District Courts; State and County Courts CIA - The World Factbook -- United States http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/us.html   (1033 words)      The Whig Party The Whig Party, in the United States, was for most of its history concerned with promoting internal improvements, such as roads, canals, railroads, deepening of rivers, etc. This was of interest to many Westerners in this period, isolated as they were and in need of markets. The Democratic Party, with Jackson himself as the rallying point, brought about radical changes, including a presidency that for the first time threatened to overshadow Congress. And many on the revolutionary side must have identified with the English Whigs, which continued to be the party in favor of Parliament's keeping the king in check. http://www.earlyrepublic.net/whigs.htm   (601 words)      Welcome to The American Presidency For a time it seemed as if the Know-Nothings (officially the American party) would be the main opposition party in the United States. In several Northern states as early as the 1840s there were local nativist parties that drew support from the Democratic and Whig parties. Know-Nothing Movement, a nativist political movement in the United States in the 1850s. http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0233110-00&templatename=/article/article.html   (521 words)      U.S. presidential election, 2004 See also: President of the United States, U.S. presidential election, U.S. Democratic Party Presidential Primary, 2004, U.S. Republican Party Presidential Primary, 2004, 2004 July 14, 2003 - Edie Bukewihge, Republican, formally filed papers with the Federal Election Commission seeking a first term as President of the United States. Filed: George W. Bush, President of the United States. http://us-presidential-election-2004.asinah.net/american-encyclopedia/wikipe...   (521 words)      united states socialist party Free Essays The citizens of the United States are to abide by the laws and regulations set by the government, but they also have many... France has many more political parties in positions of power than the United Kingdom or the United States have. Today in the United States there are two main political parties. http://www.netessays.net/search/63117.html   (521 words)      Know-Nothing Party --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! By 1859 the party's influence was limited to the border states. The Whig Party was formally organized in 1834, bringing together a loose coalition of groups united in their opposition to what party members viewed as the executive tyranny of “King Andrew” Jackson. 18th vice president of the United States (1873–75) in the Republican administration of President Ulysses S. Grant and a national leader in the antislavery movement. http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9369309?tocId=9369309   (831 words)      Communist Party of the United States During the Second World War, when the United States and the Soviet Union were wartime allies, membership of the party reached 75,000. A typical unit was the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, organized in the United States. This law, passed by Congress in 1940, made it illegal for anyone in the United States "to advocate, abet, or teach the desirability of overthrowing the government". http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcommunist.htm   (831 words)      List of Communist Organizations Operating in US. Green Party of the United States -- Hybrid of ecologist and left-social-democratic World Socialist Party of the United States (WSPUS) United States Pacifist Party (USPP) -- Religious pacifist, far closer to Gandhi than Trotsky. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/828445/posts   (831 words)      Socialist Party USA - Celebrating Over 100 Years As America's Voice For Democratic Socialism Socialist Party USA - Celebrating Over 100 Years As America's Voice For Democratic Socialism (c) 2002, 2004 Socialist Party of the United States of America Anyone who might be interested in joining the Party and being part of an active local chapter, which will meet monthly, is invited to attend. http://www.sp-usa.org   (831 words)      Welcome to The American Presidency 56) of the United States was formed to oppose Andrew Jackson and the Democratic party. Ashworth, John, Agrarians and Aristocrats: Party Political Ideology in the United States, 1837 Carroll, E. Origins of the Whig Party (1925; repr. http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0311200-0&templatename=/article/article.html   (586 words)      World Socialist Web Site The case of Terri Schiavo and the crisis of politics and culture in the United States German Party of Democratic Socialism renames itself "The Left Party" Statement of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party) on the 2005 German elections http://www.wsws.org   (586 words)      CPUSA Online - Our banner for 2004 was “Build Unity – Defeat Bush and the Ultra-Right.” Our method was an all-out effort with the broad labor-led democratic front against extreme right-wing reaction; and within that all-out for a bigger, stronger Communist Party and YCL. The Communist Party USA expresses its deep sorrow on the death of Yasser Arafat, the decades-long leader and larger-than-life symbol of the Palestinian people’s quest for justice, human rights, self-determination and statehood. The Communist Party USA and the 2004 Elections: Build the Party, Build the Coalitions http://www.cpusa.org/   (586 words)      Worker's Socialist Party Of The United States Welcome to the website of the Worker's Socialist Party Of The United States. We are a revolutionary political organisation whose sole aim is the establishment of a new society-Socialism-a world of social ownership, democratic control and free access. http://www.socialism.org.i8.com   (586 words)      Political party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In this model, the Republican Party in the United States is considered an electoralist - programmatic party while the Democratic Party is seen as an electoralist - catch-all party. Also, one party dominant systems existed in Mexico with the Institutional Revolutionary Party until the 1990's, and in the southern United States with the Democratic Party from the 1880s until the 1970s. One right wing coalition party and one left wing coalition party is the most common ideological breakdown in such a system but in two-party states political parties are traditionally catch all parties which are ideologically broad and inclusive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party   (1521 words)      It didn't happen here: Why socialism failed in the United States The failure of reformism, not socialism Its support for the Democratic Party in the United States was only one facet of Stalinism’s politically criminal role in the international proletariat. In the United States the American Communist Party was notorious for its free resort to physical violence to intimidate opponents within the labor movement. The perspective of a revolutionary socialist transformation in the United States or Europe is not even considered. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/mar2002/book-m06.shtml   (1521 words)

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