The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

Everything from poetry to phonetics, history to histrionics, philosophy to party games has been adapted to the turntable.

Campbell-Bannerman was able to rally the party around the traditional liberal platform of free trade and land reform and led them to the greatest election victory in their history.

In the 2002 national election, a new party founded by former PLN Congressman and government Minister Ottón Solís captured 26 % of the vote, forcing a runoff election for the first time in the country's history.

South Korea's major conservative party, the Saenuri Party or 새누리당, changed its form throughout its history.

The party has fluctuated between periods of reformism and political conservatism throughout its history.

Throughout its history, the party and the Central Committee were riven by factional infighting and repression by government authorities.

Conservative critics of his administration found that he did not do enough to advance the goals of the right: " Eisenhower's victories were ," according to Hans Morgenthau, " but accidents without consequence in the history of the Republican party.

Chairwoman Tsai insisted on the need for the party to remember its history, defend Taiwan's sovereignty and national security, and maintain its confidence.

It was the largest party in Dáil Éireann at every general election from the 1932 general election until the 2011 general election, when it suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government in the history of the Irish state, a loss described as " historic " in its proportions, where it saw its electoral support base diminished by 75 %, as a reaction to the intervention, and in the running of the Irish economy, of the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank in November 2010.

Writing to The Times, Hayek said, " May one who has devoted a large part of his life to the study of the history and the principles of liberalism point out that a party that keeps a socialist government in power has lost all title to the name ' Liberal '.

They also won 56 % of the two party preferred vote, which is still the greatest winning margin at a federal election in Australian political history.

In 1838, the political situation in Tennessee — where, in 1835, Democrats had lost the governorship for the first time in their party's history — persuaded Polk to return to help the party at home.

The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the 10-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967 – 68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.

According to Democratic Kampuchea's version of party history, the Viet Minh's failure to negotiate a political role for the KPRP at the 1954 Geneva Conference represented a betrayal of the Cambodian movement, which still controlled large areas of the countryside and which commanded at least 5, 000 armed men.

The Liberals won 190 seats — the most in Canadian history at the time, and still a record for the party.

Accordingly, St. Laurent resigned on 21 June 1957 — ending what is still the longest uninterrupted run in government for a party at the federal level in Canadian history.

Spring did not feel that he could control Browne for the duration of the election, given Browne's history of defying party policy to such a degree that Browne had to leave several political parties.

Control over party history and the legal status of individual ex-party members played a large role in dictating the ideological diversity and thus the faction in power within the CPSU.

The history of the Communist Party was revised to delete references to leaders purged from the party, especially during the rule of Joseph Stalin ( 1922 – 53 ).

He hadn't read this either, but Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, the party theoretician, had read Kautsky's pamphlet and summarised it.

In The Stalin School of Falsification, Trotsky quotes Bukharin's 1918 pamphlet, From the Collapse of Czarism to the Fall of the Bourgeoisie, which was re-printed by the party publishing house, Proletari, in 1923.

" Jacques Barzun said this stance made Webster's Third " the longest political pamphlet ever put together by a party ", done with " a dogma that far transcends the limits of lexicography ".

Campaign of 1898 96 p., official party pamphlet for North Carolina election of 1898

In 1874, when Gladstone published his pamphlet on The Vatican Decrees, Lord Acton wrote during November and December a series of remarkable letters to The Times, illustrating Gladstone's main theme by numerous historical examples of papal inconsistency, in a way which must have been bitter enough to the ultramontane party, but ultimately disagreeing with Gladstone's conclusion and insisting that the Church itself was better than its premises implied.

In the following year he published a pamphlet on the currency system, which confirmed his reputation as the ablest financier of his time ; but his free-trade principles did not accord with those of his party.

He became a prominent speaker for the party and wrote a popular Christian socialist pamphlet with Keir Hardie entitled The Christ that is to Be in 1903.

Many of his political speeches were published in pamphlet form, and they show him to have been a vigorous and effective, though somewhat unscrupulous and often virulently personal, party debater.

Lenin had published his ideas for moving the party forward in his pamphlet What Is to Be Done ?, which was considered to be a document putting forward the views of the entire Iskra group led by Lenin and Martov.

In 2001, Lilley provoked some controversy in his party and Britain more widely by calling for cannabis to be legalised in a Social Market Foundation pamphlet.

Learning that she will be forced to skip the upcoming Tory party conference, and seeing an opportunity to make some money and embarrass the CMR, he convinces her that he can get the pamphlet published, cons her into writing him a check, and then arranges to have it printed up by a pornographic book publisher, complete with full-color illustrations ( the same ones he stole from the meeting ).

While McDowell was unveiling the poster during a press briefing in Ranelagh which was the site of his telegraph pole climb in the 2002 election ; constituency opponent John Gormley of the Green party turned up to confront McDowell on the issue of an accompanying pamphlet which made misleading claims about the Green party.

His speech on Gladstone's Suspensory Bill was afterwards published as a pamphlet, but the attitude which he and the peers who followed him had taken up, in insisting on their amendments to the preamble of the bill, was one difficult to maintain, and Lord Cairns made terms with Lord Granville in circumstances which precluded his consulting his party first.

It took a further six weeks to organise the production of a party weekly, the New Worker, and issue the first pamphlet arguing the case for the new party.

The pamphlet asserted that returning to the old party system would mean weak government, and that it was weak government which had led other European countries to dictatorship.

Carl Schmitt — drawn to the Nazi party by his admiration for a decisive leader — praised him in his pamphlet State, Volk and Movement because only the ruthless will of such a leader could save Germany and its people from the " asphalt culture " of modernity, to bring about unity and authenticity.

In autumn 1938 the party was abolished and during the German occupation and World War II that came soon afterwards the newspaper became an underground mimeographed pamphlet.

* The trade unions, the party and the state a pamphlet by Tomsky

His Essays upon Peace at Home and War Abroad, published November 1703, “ promoted ‘ moderation ’ and the anti-party attitude favoured by the Queen and Harley .” This pamphlet angered his friends in the Tory party because it was in opposition to the policies the party was pushing at the time.

He took offence at a pamphlet put out by Family First candidate Danny Nalliah, which identified bottle shops, brothels, masonic lodges, mosques, and Hindu and Buddhist temples as " strongholds of Satan ", and said that he did not want the preferences of such a party.

Blackman arrived a day or two early, and Lewis took him to a department store immediately and outfitted him, luggage and all, and then he took him to a party at the Woodwards that went on until four in the morning.

The party seemed finished and during this period some Liberals, such as Churchill, went over to the Conservatives, while others went over to Labour.

Vladko Maček, who had succeeded Radić as leader of the Croatian Peasant Party, the largest political party in Croatia, was imprisoned, and members of a newly emerging insurgent movement, the Ustaše, went into exile.

Finally, Thierry and his party went to Luxeuil and ordered the abbot to conform to the usages of the country.

This period, known as the Great Darkness ended with the Quiet Revolution and the party went into terminal decline.

Trotsky's views went unheeded until 1923, when the Politburo announced a resolution where it reaffirmed party democracy, and even declared the possibility of ending the appointment powers of the center.

The decree lifting the ban on party politics went into effect on 1 January 1979, as planned.

In 1949 in Congress, the Communist party only had less than forty members, however, by 1953 it went up to nearly four thousand.

Most of the Taborites now went over to the party of the Utraquists ; the rest joined the " Brothers of the Law of Christ " () ( see Unity of the Brethren ; also Bohemian Brethren and Moravian Church ).

The party went on to win a clear majority of seats in the 1918 general election: of the 73 seats in which Sinn Féin were elected, 25 were uncontested.

He then went to work full-time for the Nazi party.

When the British colonial administration outlawed the Congress party, Nehru went to prison for the first time.

After Moon went to the dentist, the party was disbanded.

After gaining experience as a teamster along the Santa Fe Trail and in Mexico, Carson signed on with a party of forty men, led by Ewing Young which in August, 1829 went into Apache country along the Gila River.

Radek's expulsion was noted at the 1913 SPD Congress, which then went on to decide in principal that no-one who had been expelled from a sister party could join another party within the Second International and retrospectively applied this rule to Radek.

Now the party secretary for Hunan, Mao stationed himself in Changsha, from where he went on a recruitment drive to gain support for the Communist Party.

In October, 17 team members were part of a party of about 90 that went out on a pleasure cruise on local Lake Minnetonka.

On 24 August a 10-year non-aggression pact was signed with provisions that included: consultation ; arbitration if either party disagreed ; neutrality if either went to war against a third power ; no membership of a group " which is directly or indirectly aimed at the other.

After Labour Listens, the party went on, in 1988, to produce a new statement of aims and values — meant to supplement and supplant the formulation of Clause IV of the party's constitution ( though, crucially, this was not actually replaced until 1995 under the leadership of Tony Blair ) and was closely modelled on Anthony Crosland's social-democratic thinking — emphasising equality rather than public ownership.

Returning to Madang at the end of December 1929, several of the party went back to Sydney to obtain instructions from the Akmana Gold Prospecting Company.

It was also from here that a colonizing party went to found the city of Tyre.