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| | United States Republican Party Encyclopedia Article @ EveryAvenue.com |
 | | The Republican Party was established in 1854 by a coalition of former Whigs, Northern Democrats, and Free-Soilers who opposed the expansion of slavery and held a Hamiltonian vision for modernizing the United States. |  | | Abraham Lincoln, the 1st Republican to be elected President of the United States (1861–1865). |  | | In the early 20th century, the traditional symbol of the Republican Party in Midwestern states such as Indiana and Ohio was the eagle, as opposed to the Democratic rooster. |
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| | United States National Republican Party - definition of United States National Republican Party in Encyclopedia |
 | | During John Quincy Adams's presidency the United States Democratic-Republican Party began to split, those who supported Adams became known as the National Republicans, while others supported Andrew Jackson and formed the modern day Democratic Party. |  | | The National Republican Party was a United States political party that existed in the first half of the 19th century. |  | | After the election of 1832, the National Republican party eventually fell apart. |
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| | United States Republican party - encyclopedia article about United States Republican party. |
 | | The Republican Party currently has majorities in the Senate United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. |  | | Organized in Ripon, Wisconsin on February 28, 1854, as a party opposed to the expansion of slavery into new territories, the Party is not to be confused with the Democratic-Republican party of Thomas Jefferson or the National Republican Party of Henry Clay. |  | | Abraham Lincoln, the 1st Republican to be elected President of the United States (1861–1865). |
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| | Democratic Party (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Democrats in the Northern states joined the Republicans in opposing the expansion of slavery, and at the 1860 nominating convention the Party split and nominated two candidates (see U.S. presidential election, 1860). |  | | In the early 20th century, the traditional symbol of the Democratic Party in Midwestern states such as Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Ohio was the rooster, as opposed to the Republican eagle. |  | | Southern Democrats took notice of the fact that 1964 Republican Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater had voted against the Civil Rights Act, and in the presidential election of 1964, Goldwater's only electoral victories outside his home state of Arizona were in the states of the Deep South. |
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| | National Republican Party -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
 | | On Jan. 4, 1995, the Republican party took control of both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate for the first time in more than 40 years. |  | | Organized in 1792 as the Republican Party, its members held power nationally between 1801 and 1825. |  | | Unlike parties elsewhere in the world, the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States are very decentralized in structure and are marked by the absence of a rigid discipline and hierarchy. |
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| | Encyclopedia: United States National Republican Party |
 | | The National Republican Party was a United States political party that existed in the first half of the 19th century. |  | | After the election of 1832, the National Republican party eventually fell apart. |  | | Those who supported Adams became known as the National Republicans, while others supported Andrew Jackson and formed the modern day Democratic Party. |
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| | Politics1 - Guide to American Political Parties |
 | | National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), Speaker of the House Denny Hastert and House Republican Conference. |  | | The party ran nuclear physicist John Hagelin as the NLP Presidential nominee in 1992 (ballot status in 32 stares - 39,000 votes - 0.04%), 1996 (ballot status in 44 states - 7th place - 110,000 votes - 0.1%) and 2000 (ballot status in 39 stares - 7th place - 83,000 votes - 0.08%). |  | | 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. |
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| | Party Elites in the United States, 1980: Republican and Democratic Party Leaders |
 | | The data pertain to Democratic and Republican party elites holding office during the election year of 1980 and include County and State Chairs, members of the Democratic and Republican National Committees, and delegates to the National Conventions. |  | | All Democratic and Republican County Chairs, all Democratic and Republican State Chairs, all National Convention delegates for both parties, and all members of the Democratic and Republican National Committees in 1980. |  | | Questionnaires were mailed to all State Chairs and all members of the Democratic and Republican National Committees and the number of questionnaires returned constituted the sample. |
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| | Politics1 - Guide to American Political Parties |
 | | National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), Speaker of the House Denny Hastert and House Republican Conference. |  | | The party ran nuclear physicist John Hagelin as the NLP Presidential nominee in 1992 (ballot status in 32 stares - 39,000 votes - 0.04%), 1996 (ballot status in 44 states - 7th place - 110,000 votes - 0.1%) and 2000 (ballot status in 39 stares - 7th place - 83,000 votes - 0.08%). |  | | The remnants of the Minnesota GRP disbanded and merged into the Liberal Party of Minnesota in 2002. |
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| | Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles |
 | | Major Political Parties: There are 11 major political parties: Vanua'aku Pati (VP); Union of Moderate Parties (UMP); Melanesian Progressive Party (MPP); National Community Association (NCA); National United Party (NUP); People's Progressive Party (PPP); Green Party; John Frum Movement (JF); Vanuatu Republican Party (VRP); Unity Front (UF); Labour Party; People’s Action Party (PAP). |  | | Vanuatu does not currently have a diplomatic office in the UK, but maintains an office at the United Nations in New York and in Noumea, New Caledonia. |  | | Vanuatu held a general election on 6 July 2004 following the dissolution of the previous (two year old) Parliament on the advice of former Prime Minister Edward Natapei. |
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| | Vanuatu (11/04) |
 | | Vanuatu is a member of the United Nations and its specialized and related agencies, including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund; South Pacific Commission; South Pacific Forum; Non-Aligned Movement; Commonwealth, Group of 77; and Asian Development Bank (ADB). |  | | The constitution created a republican political system headed by a president who has primarily ceremonial powers and is elected by a two-thirds majority in an electoral college consisting of members of Parliament and the presidents of Regional Councils. |  | | The Supreme Court consists of a chief justice and up to three other judges. |
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| | Guide to Country ProfilesThe World Factbook Home |
 | | National Democratic Party [William MIRANDA]; National Republican Party of Puerto Rico [Luis FERRE]; New Progressive Party or PNP [Pedro ROSSELLO]; Popular Democratic Party or PPD [Anibal ACEVIDA Vila]; Puerto Rican Independence Party or PIP [Ruben BERRIOS Martinez] |  | | Democratic Party [leader NA]; Republican Party [leader NA] |  | | Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire or PDCI [Jean Konan BANNY, acting head]; Ivorian Popular Front or FPI [Laurent GBAGBO]; Ivorian Worker's Party or PIT [Francis WODIE]; Rally of the Republicans or RDR [Henriette DAGRI-DIABATE]; over 20 smaller parties |
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| | The Democratic Party |
 | | In 1798, the "party of the common man" was officially named the Democratic-Republican Party and in 1800 elected Jefferson as the first Democratic President of the United States. |  | | The Jacksonian Democrats created the national convention process, the party platform, and reunified the Democratic Party with Jackson's victories in 1828 and 1832. |  | | Democratic Party leader William Jennings Bryan led a movement of agrarian reformers and supported the right of women's suffrage, the progressive graduated income tax and the direct election of Senators. |
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| | Political Parties II |
 | | Early political party in the United States, originally led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the 1790's in opposition to the Federalist Party and the ideas of Alexander Hamilton. |  | | The party was also known as the Republican Party and the Jeffersonian Republican Party, in fact it was the forerunner of today's Democratic Party. |  | | The first Progressive party, know colloquially as the Bull Moose Party, was founded after a bitter fight for the Republican presidential nomination among the incumbent president William H. Taft, the Wisconsin Senator Robert M. LaFollette (leader of the Republican Party's progressive "insurgents"), and the former president Theodore Roosevelt. |
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| | Vanuatu, Map and Flag |
 | | Jon Frum Movement [Song KEASPAI]; Melanesian Progressive Party or MPP [Barak SOPE]; National United Party or NUP [Dinh Van THAN]; Union of Moderate Parties or UMP [Serge VOHOR]; Vanuaaku Party (Our Land Party) or VP [Edward NATAPEI]; Vanuatu Republican Party or VRP [Maxime Carlot KORMAN] |  | | election results: percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - UMP 15, VP 14, VRP 3, MPP 2, other and independent 18; note - political party associations are fluid |  | | party to: Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 94 |
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| | Democratic-Republican Party |
 | | When it reemerged, Andrew Jackson led the Democratic party which split off, leaving the rest in the National Republican Party. |  | | The policies of the party began in a Jeffersonian direction, but in the Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson was forced to diverge from strict constitutional construction, and was faced by John Marshall in the Supreme Court. |  | | The party held the support of the agrarian freeholding rural America with industry and merchandising as partners. |
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- United States |
 | | Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. |  | | election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - Republican Party 55, Democratic Party 44, independent 1; House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - Republican Party 231, Democratic Party 200, undecided 4 |  | | 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 |
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| | National Libertarian Party |
 | | In fact, the party of Jefferson was known in his day as the Democratic Republican Party. |  | | Win or lose, the United States attacked another country that was not attacking, threatening to attack or even hinting that the thought was even crossing their mind to attack us. |  | | First, our national decisions are not made at the polls. |
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| | Democrats.com |
 | | Norm Dicks now says it was all a mistake — his vote, the invasion, and the way the United States is waging the war. |  | | Republicans are now “the party of Sam’s Club, not just the country club,” according to Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, as quoted in a recent article in the conservative Weekly Standard. |  | | On the Republican side, the dead-enders are led by Saint John McCain, Duncan Hunter, and Mean Jean Schmidt. |
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 | | With the number of Hispanic, Asian and immigrant voters growing across the United States, those choreographing the public face of this week’s Republican National Convention are working hard to shed the party’s image as a bastion of white, conservative America. |  | | During the Democratic and the Republican National Conventions, the New York Immigration Coalition served as a resource for journalists seeking to connect with immigrant communities and leaders, facilitating access to immigrant perspectives on convention activities and party platforms. |  | | “Compassion” and “opportunity” appear to be in plentiful supply in New York this week, at least judging by how the Republicans are using these words as central themes of the Republican National Convention. |
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| | The Gilded Age (1) |
 | | From 1876-1897, political control of the national government in the United States?: |  | | no black slave could be a citizen of the United States. |  | | in national politics, neither party could keep both a majority in Congress and a president in the White House. |
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| | List of political parties in Vanuatu |
 | | Greens\n*Melanesian Progressive Party\n*Party of Our Land\n*Union of Moderate Parties\n*Vanuatu National United Party\n*Vanuatu Republican Party |  | | This is a list of political parties in Vanuatu. |  | | See also: Politics of Vanuatu, List of political parties. |
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| | Immigration bill sparks furor among some House Republicans, gun owners, and civil libertarians; Quietly breaking ranks |
 | | Although Republicans are using terrorism as the motivation for strict asylum provisions, the current asylum laws in no way applied to the events of 9/11, since all of the terrorists involved were in the United States legally and not as refugees. |  | | According to senior House aides, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, several factions of the Republican Party are up in arms over the Republican authored H.R. 418 or Real ID Act, scheduled to go to a floor vote today. |  | | On the surface, a centralized national database for past criminal records such as DUIs is not an issue for most Republicans and Democrats. |
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| | Political Resources on the Net - USA (I) |
 | | Cascadian National Party (CNP) A progressive political party that calls for the independence of Oregon and Washington state to create a Cascadian Republic |  | | Political Resources on the Net - USA (I) United States of America (1:5 Parties) |  | | Liberal Party of Minnesota New Democratic Socialist for a new age |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The United States of America |
 | | To obtain the nomination in a Republican National Convention a majority of the delegates is sufficient, whereas in that held by the Democratic party a two-thirds vote is necessary. |  | | By the Constitution the judicial power of the United States is vested in a supreme court, and such inferior courts as the Congress may, from time to time, ordain and establish. |  | | In examining the constitutionality of a state law one is to assume that the state legislature has power to pass all acts whatever, unless they are prohibited by the Constitution of the United States or by the constitution of the state. |
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| | Dennis Kucinich: Insight and Action (Home Page) |
 | | The House joint resolution, originally sponsored by two Democrats (Neil Abercrombie and Dennis Kucinich) and two Republicans (Walter Jones and Ron Paul), gained another Republican cosponsor on October 19, Congressman Gregory Meeks of New York's 6th Congressional district. |  | | Kucinich Talks About Democrats, Iraq and a United Peace Movement |  | | In an interview posted today at Democracy Rising, Dennis Kucinich answers questions about Democratic Party leadership, conditions on the ground in Iraq, and the future of the Peace Movement. |
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| | Politics1 - Guide to American Political Parties |
 | | National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), Speaker of the House Denny Hastert and House Republican Conference. |  | | The party ran nuclear physicist John Hagelin as the NLP Presidential nominee in 1992 (ballot status in 32 stares - 39,000 votes - 0.04%), 1996 (ballot status in 44 states - 7th place - 110,000 votes - 0.1%) and 2000 (ballot status in 39 stares - 7th place - 83,000 votes - 0.08%). |  | | The remnants of the Minnesota GRP disbanded and merged into the Liberal Party of Minnesota in 2002. |
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| | Politics1 - Guide to American Political Parties |
 | | National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), Speaker of the House Denny Hastert and House Republican Conference. |  | | The party ran nuclear physicist John Hagelin as the NLP Presidential nominee in 1992 (ballot status in 32 stares - 39,000 votes - 0.04%), 1996 (ballot status in 44 states - 7th place - 110,000 votes - 0.1%) and 2000 (ballot status in 39 stares - 7th place - 83,000 votes - 0.08%). |  | | The remnants of the Minnesota GRP disbanded and merged into the Liberal Party of Minnesota in 2002. |
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