Liberals and conservatives in both parties -- Democratic and Republican -- should divorce themselves and form two independent parties, George H. Reama, nationally known labor-management expert, said here yesterday.

In 1866, Seward and Weed sought out Democratic allies of the President and other conservatives in an effort to establish a stronger base for the President to oppose the Radical Republicans.

The conservatives opposed the far right dictatorship of the colonels ( 1967 – 1974 ) and established the New Democratic Party following the fall of the dictatorship.

He was the first chancellor ( top official ) of the FRG, 1949 – 63, and until his death was the founder and leader of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), a coalition of conservatives, ordoliberals, and adherents of Protestant and Catholic social teaching that dominated West Germany politics for most of its history.

The Social Democratic parties refused to accept the increased taxes on goods, while the conservatives opposed increases in inheritance taxes.

The conservatives merged with the Liberal and Democratic Union ( formed in 1906 ) to become the Liberal Union in 1910.

Although a growing number of the party's conservatives — especially in the South — had grown increasingly skeptical of Roosevelt's economic and social policies, few of them dared to publicly oppose Roosevelt, and he was renominated easily when the Democratic Convention met in Chicago.

He was one of the nation's most prominent conservatives, leading opposition to Democrat Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party.

The tariff was supported by the Republican party and conservatives and was generally opposed by the Democratic Party and liberal progressives.

As of 2011, Pedro Passos Coelho is the prime minister for the liberal conservatives Social Democratic Party in coalition with the right-wing conservative People's Party.

In addition, as the Democratic Party became identified with a pro-choice position on abortion and with nontraditional societal values, social conservatives joined the Republican Party in increasing numbers.

Some critics on the political left allege that AIPAC holds views that are politically conservative in their nature, while AIPAC's membership has also been described as " overwhelmingly Democratic " by conservatives.

Johns and other American conservatives met regularly with Savimbi in remote Jamba, culminating in the " Democratic International " in 1985.

In 1985, with the backing of the Reagan administration, Jack Abramoff and other U. S. conservatives organized the Democratic International in Savimbi's base in Jamba, in Cuando Cubango Province in southeastern Angola .< ref >

Meanwhile, conservatives railed against what they saw as the failures of liberal social programs, a potent theme in the 1980 presidential race and the 1994 mid-term elections, when the GOP captured the United States House of Representatives after 40 years of Democratic control.

Reacting to all these perceptions of American decline internationally and domestically, a group of academics, journalists, politicians, and policymakers, labeled by many as " new conservatives " or " neoconservatives ", since many of them were still Democrats, rebelled against the Democratic Party's leftward drift on defense issues in the 1970s ( especially after the nomination of George McGovern in 1972 ), and also blamed liberal Democrats for the nation's weakened geopolitical stance.

* Christian Democratic Party ( social conservatives, Christian democrats ): Christine Boutin, Jean-Frédéric Poisson, Charles de Champeaux

Adenauer united most of the prewar German conservatives into a new party, the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ).

The first free elections in West Germany were held in 1949, which were won by the Christian Democratic Party of Germany ( CDU ) ( conservatives ) by a slight margin.

During the campaign, Moran was criticized by military advocacy groups and conservatives for saying, at a local Democratic committee meeting, that Murray had not " served or performed any kind of public service ".

However, on August 8, 1995 Tauzin himself became a Republican, claiming that conservatives were no longer welcome in the Democratic Party.

Ahead of the 1992 election, the ODS ruled out an electoral alliance with the Liberal Democrats, but agreed to an alliance with Václav Benda's Christian Democratic Party ( KDS ) in order to boost its appeal to conservatives.

Both liberals, such as Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, and conservatives, such as MSNBC political pundit, Nixon administration political advisor and Reagan administration Communications Director Pat Buchanan, would also argue that Nixon ’ s victory in 1968 set the stage for Reagan ’ s victory, and the fact that Reagan did so well in Southern states, traditionally a Democratic stronghold, as well as the fact that some of Reagan ’ s rhetoric involving law and order and states ’ rights seemed to mirror Nixon ’ s Southern Strategy seem to bear this fact out.

Texas conservatives, traditionally " yellow dog Democrats ", had already voted for Republicans in the 1950s, when Democratic Governor Allan Shivers had aligned with Eisenhower, rather than the national Democratic candidate Adlai E. Stevenson, in a movement that was jokingly called " Shivercrats ".

On September 30, 2007, Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party approved a resolution asserting a separate identity from China and called for the enactment of a new constitution for a " normal nation ".

As a result of that effort, the Puerto Rico Legislature approved a law regulating presidential primaries in 1979, the first of which was held in 1980, with George H. W. Bush winning the Republican primary and President Carter beating Senator Edward " Ted " Kennedy in a hard-fought Democratic primary.

Although not approved by Allies at Potsdam, hundreds of thousands of ethnic German living in Yugoslavia and Romania were deported to slave labour in the Soviet Union, to Allied-occupied Germany, and subsequently to the German Democratic Republic, Austria and the Federal Republic of Germany.

Mitchell viewed the plan as unrealistic, but two months later he approved a reduced version which involved burgling the Democratic National Committee's ( DNC ) headquarters at the Watergate Complex in Washington, D. C and placing wiretaps.

Lacking the two-thirds majority necessary in both houses of the Legislature to submit constitutional amendments to the electorate, in 2004 the Popular Democratic Party's then-majority approved legislation to hold a referendum, not on a particular constitutional amendment as such, but on the general concept of switching from a bicameral to a unicameral system which was held on July 10, 2005.

Albanian media emphasized the unusual cooperative spirit between the Albanian Socialist Party and the Albanian Democratic Party: Moisiu was a candidate approved by both Berisha and Nano.

On September 11, 1998, the Senate Banking Committee approved a bipartisan bill with unanimous Democratic member support that, like the House-passed bill, would have repealed Glass-Steagall Sections 20 and 32.

However, the ELA Soberano or " Sovereign Commonwealth ," a principle based on the development of Puerto Rico's political status based on autonomy has been approved by the Popular Democratic Party, one of the two major parties, for more than a decade after winning the 1998 referendum under the fifth column.

At the following Club Annual General meeting in April 2002, members approved two motions proposed by Michael Keith Smith, ( also Chairman of the Conservative Democratic Alliance ); one reaffirming the Club's opposition to mass immigration, and another empowering Club officers to institute legal action against the Conservative Party following the Club's ' suspension ' by them.

Truman said the leading Democrats in Congress approved, but they warned him, " it would defeat Democratic Senators and Congressmen in the Bible Belt.

In the end, as the party wanted, the constitution included several references to " socialism " and a " classless society " and was approved with the opposition of only one party, the right-wing Democratic Social Center ( Portuguese: Centro Democrático Social or CDS ).

The congress approved the programme of National Democratic Revolution proposed by Tulsi Lal Amatya, and elected Tulsi Lal as general secretary.

In response to the Election Act prepared and approved by Mečiar's government in 1997, five opposition parties ( Christian Democratic Movement / KDH, Democratic Party / DS, Democratic Union / DU, Social Democratic Party of Slovakia / SDSS and the Green Party of Slovakia / SZS ) formed the Slovak Democratic Coalition ( SDK ).

On 22 May 1990, after strikes, riots and unrest, the Gabonese Democratic Party PDG central committee and the national assembly approved constitutional amendments to facilitate the transition to a multi-party system.

File: Postcard BNR. jpg | The Pahonia as the symbol of the Belarusian Democratic Republic ( from 1918, no unified design of the coat of arms was approved )

Klein reported that the Democratic version of the FISA bill " would require the surveillance of every foreign-terrorist target's calls to be approved by the FISA court " and that it therefore " would give terrorists the same legal protections as Americans.

A JR Central report on the Chūō Shinkansen was approved by a Liberal Democratic Party panel in October 2008, which certified three proposed routes for the Maglev.

After extensive negotiations and a number of delays the Charter was approved and presented to Mr. Donelon by the Chair at a meeting of the St. Petersburg Democratic Club.

It was drafted by Volker Beck from The Greens and was approved under the Green / Social Democratic coalition government.

CCF federal vice-president and future New Democratic Party leader David Lewis was instrumental in drafting the document and having it approved.