Indeed, the old Jeffersonians were far more atune to the Hamilton-oriented Whigs than they were to the Jacksonian Democrats.

If anything, the conservative Democrats were more opposed to Hearst than the Republicans.

As the 87th Congress began its sessions last week, liberal Democrats were ready for a finish fight to open the sluice gates controlled by the House Rules Committee and permit the free flow of liberal legislation to the floor.

A year ago today, when the Democrats were fretting and frolicking in Los Angeles and John F. Kennedy was still only an able and ambitious Senator who yearned for the power and responsibility of the Presidency, Theodore H. White had already compiled masses of notes about the Presidential campaign of 1960.

As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican party, Lincoln found his policies and personality were " blasted from all sides ": Radical Republicans demanded harsher treatment of the South, War Democrats desired more compromise, Copperheads despised him, and irreconcilable secessionists plotted his death.

Lincoln denounced the decision, alleging it was the product of a conspiracy of Democrats to support the Slave Power Lincoln argued, " The authors of the Declaration of Independence never intended ' to say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity ', but they ' did consider all men created equal — equal in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness '.

While Republicans were discouraged, Democrats were energized and did especially well in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and New York.

" The Republicans gained majorities in both House and Senate for the first time since Democrats in the 1856 elections, they were to be seated in numbers which Lincoln might use to govern, a national parliamentary majority even before pro-slavery House and Senate seats vacated.

The New Democrats, organized as the Democratic Leadership Council ( DLC ), were a branch of the Democratic Party that called for welfare reform and smaller government, a policy supported by both Democrats and Republicans.

When Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson addressed Christian themes at the Republican National Convention – with Bush criticizing Democrats for omitting God from their platform – many moderates were alienated.

This was legally a new organisation ( the headquarters, records, assets and debts of the old party were inherited by the Liberal Democrats ), but its constitution asserts it to be the same Liberal party.

Some independent Social Democrats contested the October 1974 and 1979 General Elections, but none were elected.

After assurances of legality on Allende's part, the murder of the Army Commander-in-Chief, General René Schneider and Frei's refusal to form an alliance with Alessandri to oppose Allende – on the grounds that the Christian Democrats were a workers ' party and could not make common cause with the oligarchs – Allende was chosen by a vote of 153 to 35.

However, during the era of segregation many Southern Democrats were conservatives, and they played a key role in the Conservative Coalition that controlled Congress from 1937 to 1963.

American trade policy relied on high tariffs under the Republicans, and reciprocal trade agreements under the Democrats, but in any case exports were at very low levels in the 1930s.

Atchison and Missouri's other Senator, the venerable Thomas Hart Benton, became rivals and finally enemies, though both were Democrats.

He sought election to another term, but the Democrats in the Missouri legislature were split between him and Benton, while the Whig minority put forward their own man.

When elections were held to the newly created Scottish Parliament in 1999, as leader of the Scottish Labour Party and through a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, Dewar became the inaugural holder of the First Minister of Scotland post.

until in early March 2009 congressional Democrats were moving to close down the program and remove children from their voucher-funded school places at the end of the 09 / 10 school year under the $ 410 billion Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 which, as of March 7 had passed the House and was pending in the Senate.

The Social Democrats were outlawed, and their leaders were imprisoned or fled abroad.

Republican primaries are tantamount to election to office as Democrats rarely field challenges for county or state legislative office.

In that year's presidential election, the Democrats nominated William Jennings Bryan, who focused ( as Populists rarely did ) on the free silver issue as a solution to the economic depression and the maldistribution of power.

A single party rarely has a majority in the Folketing, instead parties form alliances ; usually the Social Democrats with centre-left parties, and Venstre with centre-right parties.

Unlike most national newspapers, the Daily Star has limited articles on politics and has rarely shown clear support for any specific party or leader ; although in the run-up to the 2010 general election the newspaper printed several articles which hinted that it wanted to see Labour and Gordon Brown voted out of power, while at the same time it offering no explicit support for the Conservatives or their leader David Cameron – who ultimately became Prime Minister following the formation a new coalition government with the Liberal Democrats when his party failed to gain an overall majority in parliament.

However, the Texas Democrats were rarely united, being divided into conservative, moderate and liberal factions that vied with one another for power.

Gelli took a list of " sleeping members "— members who were not invited to take part in masonic rituals anymore, as Italian freemasonry was under close scrutiny by the reigning Christian Democrats.

It was invited to join the Christian Democrat dominated Alliance for Germany coalition for the 1990 Volkskammer election but instead it joined the Association of Free Democrats in 12 February 1990.

This party, combined with the Australia Party — under the invited leadership of Don Chipp — formed the nucleus of the Australian Democrats which aspired to a balance of power in the federal Senate and up to four state upper houses for three decades.

Wallis was invited by Sen. Harry Reid ( D-NV ) to give the Democrats ' weekly radio address on Saturday, December 2, 2006.

The Yahweh ben Yahweh group appeared in the news again in 2012 after " Michael the Black Man " ( real name Maurice Woodside ), a former member of the group who is now a conservative activist, was invited to speak at a rally for Rick Santorum's campaign during which he said that Democrats were akin to Nazis.

Two years later, at the dawn of a new civil rights era with federal laws barring racial discrimination in all forms, Kidd was invited by a number of Louisville Democrats to run for a seat in the House of Representatives in Kentucky General Assembly.

Following Abbé Pierre's death in January 2007, Italian magistrate Carlo Mastelloni declared to the Corriere della Sera that during the abduction of Aldo Moro Abbé Pierre had gone to the Christian Democrats ' headquarters on piazza del Gesù ( Jesus Place ) in Rome in an attempt to speak with its secretary Benigno Zaccagnini, in favor of a " hard line " of refusal of negotiations along with the BR.

" Other Democrats opposing abortions such as Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, Senators John Breaux and Howell Heflin, and five anti-abortion Democratic governors did speak.

During a taped Ways and Means Committee hearing, after being denied the opportunity to speak several times, Gibbons stormed out of the room shouting about how the Democrats were being railroaded and given no time to speak.

Rep. Issa verbally confirmed that Democrats had asked Rev Barry Lynn, a prominent theologian, to speak, and his name was added to the speakers list, though without topics, or assignment to a panel, since no complete written nomination had been received by deadline.

On the day of the hearing, Democrats demanded the committee also add Sandra Fluke, a woman enrolled at Georgetown, to the panel ( clergy ) that had just sat, and that she be allowed to speak " now ", but committee chairman Issa said Democrats could not add their witness because she was not a member of the clergy.

Its editorials often speak out against the socialist and liberal parties, Hungarian Socialist Party ( MSZP ) and Alliance of Free Democrats ( SZDSZ ).

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

He said, `` We Democrats must resolve our issues on the test of what is right and just, and not what is expedient at the time ''.

The Republicans ' counterargument that slavery was the mainstay of the enemy steadily gained support, with the Democrats crushed at the 1863 elections in Ohio when they tried to resurrect anti-black sentiment.

After a ballot of members and the passing of a motion at the 1987 Portsmouth conference, the party merged with the Liberal Party in 1988 to form the Liberal Democrats, although a minority left to form a continuing SDP led by David Owen.

The Social Democrats aimed at retaining the political rights of the labour movement already achieved, and establishing influence over the people and society.

Whereas in May and June 2005 victory of the Christian Democrats seemed highly likely, with some polls giving them an absolute majority, this picture changed shortly before the election at 18 September 2005.

Cleveland's margin of victory was, at the time, the largest in a contested New York election, and the Democrats also picked up seats in both houses of the New York State Legislature.

Later in his term, as his fellow Democrats chafed at being excluded from the spoils, Cleveland began to replace more of the partisan Republican officeholders with Democrats.

Their representative at the Peace of Riga talks opted for leaving Minsk, Berdychiv, Kamianets-Podilskyi and the surrounding areas on the Soviet side of the border, not wanting to allow population shifts National Democrats considered politically undesirable, including what would be a reduced proportion of citizens who were ethnically Polish.

National elections held on 13 May 2001 returned Berlusconi to power at the head of the five-party center-right " Freedom House " coalition, comprising the prime minister's own party, Forza Italia, the National Alliance, the Northern League, the Christian Democratic Center, and the Democrats ' Center Union.

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.

Many of these Democrats believed that Polk had always wanted the boundary at the 49th, and that he had fooled them into believing he wanted it at the 54th parallel.

Her retirement coincided with the ending of her party's federal parliamentary representation ; the Democrats ' support had collapsed after 2002 and they won no seats at the 2004 and 2007 half-senate elections.

In the 1994 election, in spite of an anti-communist " Red Socks " campaign by the then-ruling Christian Democrats aimed at scaring off eastern communist voters, the PDS increased its vote to 4. 4 percent.

The motion to seat him passed by a tally of 162 – 1 ; however, at the time a quorum consisted of 165 votes, and when voting closed Democrats shouted " No quorum ," triggering a formal House quorum count.

Startled Democrats protested heatedly, issuing screams, threats, and insults at the Speaker.

Though Democrats reinstated the disappearing quorum when they took control of the House the following year, Reed as minority leader proved so adroit at using the tactic against them that Democrats reinstated Reed Rules in 1894.

The Democrats proposed that the local-option law be changed so that the decision to ban liquor sales could be made at the city and township level.