" In keeping with that sentiment, Lincoln led the moderates regarding Reconstruction policy, and was opposed by the Radical Republicans, under Rep. Thaddeus Stevens, Sen. Charles Sumner and Sen. Benjamin Wade, political allies of the president on other issues.

On the other hand, some historians have speculated that Charlemagne opposed formal marriages for his daughters out of concern for political rivalries from their potential husbands ; none of Charlemagne's daughters were married, despite political offers of arranged marriages.

In his first term in the House, he soon articulated his own brand of Jeffersonian – Jacksonian principles he would steadfastly promote throughout most of his political career ; he advocated for the interests of the poor, while maintaining an anti-abolitionist stance, insisted on limited spending by the government and opposed protective tariffs.

Democrats were rarely invited to speak at the university, in part because they took political and social positions ( especially support for abortion rights ) opposed by the Religious Right.

Attlee opposed the 1926 General Strike, believing that strike action should not be used as a political weapon.

The Eastern position could be characterized as being political in nature, as opposed to a doctrinal view.

For example, in the political controversy over anthropogenic climate change that is prevalent in the United States-it has been thought that those who are opposed to the scientific consensus did so because of a lack of evidence.

At the other end of the political spectrum, the acceptance by the DPP of the symbols of the Republic of China is opposed by the Taiwan Solidarity Union.

Fundamental to the concept of public service ethics is the notion that decisions and actions are based on what best serves the public's interests, as opposed to the official's personal interests ( including financial interests ) or self-serving political interests.

According to its 1994 constituent declaration, the group is opposed to the present European political structure, but committed to integration.

These parties belong to all sides of the political spectrum so the reasons for their Euroscepticism may differ, but they all opposed the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon.

In a similar way to the moderate parties, the French far right in general is naturally opposed to the EU, as they criticize France's loss of political and economic sovereignty to a supra-national entity.

Arendt says that political freedom is historically opposed to sovereignty or will-power, since in ancient Greece and Rome, the concept of freedom was inseparable from performance, and did not arise as a conflict between the " will " and the " self.

On the other end of the political spectrum Robespierre opposed a war on two grounds, fearing that it would strengthen the monarchy and military at the expense of the revolution, and that it would incur the anger of ordinary people in Austria and elsewhere.

Although some of these women embraced the political and social amendments of the Revolution, they opposed the dissolution of the Catholic Church and the formation of revolutionary cults like the Cult of the Supreme Being advocated by Robespierre.

The German word Land is the exact cognate of English land but it carries many political, constitutional, and historical meanings absent from the English term ( among other things a constituent state of the German Federal Republic, historically a principality of the Holy Roman Empire, but also " rural " as opposed to " urban ", etc .— the Swedish lantis equating to " country bumpkin " or " hick "— most of these meanings are borne by the Anglo-Norman word country in English ).

Hierarchies and hierarchical thinking has been criticized by many people, including Susan McClary and one political philosophy which is vehemently opposed to hierarchical organization: anarchism is generally opposed to hierarchical organization in any form of human relations.

Stringent anti-terror legislation such as TADA, POTA and MCOCA have received much political attention, both in favour and opposed.

While there are a number of political parties in the state, the political landscape has been dominated for decades by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, historically opposed and competing entities, which both occupy the traditional centre ground.

For Hitler, his position was opposed to the direction of the " socialist " wing, stating it would mean " political bolshevization of Germany ".

In January 1995, Kemp's stated reason for not entering the 1996 Republican Party presidential primaries was that his personal beliefs were out of balance with the contemporary Republican political landscape: Kemp opposed term limits, he always preferred tax cuts to anything resembling a balanced budget amendment and, unlike most Republicans, favored federal incentives to combat urban poverty.

Proceeding on from this, the Manifesto presents the argument for why the Communist League, as opposed to other socialist and liberal political parties and groups at the time, was truly acting in the interests of the proletariat to overthrow capitalist society and replace it with socialism.

Though Adolf Hitler succeeded in garnering the support of many German industrialists, prominent traditionalists openly and secretly opposed his policies of euthanasia, genocide, and attacks on organized religion, including Claus von Stauffenberg, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Henning von Tresckow, Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen, and the monarchist Carl Friedrich Goerdeler.

This was opposed by certain leading party members and a week later ; the Declaration of the Forty-Six was issued, which condemned Stalin's centralisation policies.

Several groups were established before the congress, which either opposed the Stalinist leadership ( the Ryutin Group ) or opposed socio-economic policies of the Stalinist leadership ( the Syrtsov – Lominandze Group, Eismont – Tolmachev Group and the group headed by Alexander Petrovich Smirnov amongst others ).

Fascists opposed the laissez-faire economic policies that were dominant in the era prior to the Great Depression.

Those who were opposed to Louis ' policies further undermined royal authority by distributing pamphlets ( often reporting false or exaggerated information ) that criticized the government and its officials, stirring up public opinion against the monarchy.

The Kaiser opposed Bismarck's careful foreign policy and wanted Germany to pursue colonialist policies, as Britain and France had been doing for decades, as well as build a navy that could match the British.

Since the DAP and the PAS have diametrically opposed policies, they have been unable to form an effective opposition coalition.

While the President was recovering in the hospital, McFarlane met with him and told him that representatives from Israel had contacted the National Security Agency to pass on confidential information from what Reagan later described as the " moderate " Iranian faction opposed to the Ayatollah's hardline anti-American policies.

Also contributing to Polk's victory was the support of new immigrant voters, who opposed the Whigs ' policies.

In 1983, Kemp opposed the policies of Chairman Volcker on multiple occasions.

In later years there emerged a revisionist school of history which sought to blame Nehru for the partition of India, mostly referring to his highly centralised policies for an independent India in 1947, which Jinnah opposed in favour of a more decentralised India.

However the people of Basutoland opposed this and when the South African Nationalist party put its apartheid policies into place the possibility of annexation was halted.

This view emphasizes the role of minimum wages as a market regulation policy akin to antitrust policies, as opposed to an illusory " free lunch " for low-wage workers.

Friedman's challenges to what he later called " naive Keynesian " ( as opposed to New Keynesian ) theory began with his 1950s reinterpretation of the consumption function, and he became the main advocate opposing activist Keynesian government policies.

The Khmer Rouge was overthrown in 1979 by an invasion by Vietnam that assisted the establishment of a new Marxist-Leninist regime, the People's Republic of Kampuchea, that opposed the policies of the Khmer Rouge.

The Contras were soon under the control of Nicaraguan business elites who opposed Sandinista policies to seize their assets.

This vacillation prompted those opposed to the policies of the Nationals to joke that its real aim was to " capitalise its gains and socialise its losses !".

Left-wing journalists opposed to Kaiser Wilhelm II's policies outed a number of prominent members of his cabinet and inner circle — and by implication the Kaiser — beginning with Maximilian Harden's indictment of the aristocratic diplomat Prince Eulenburg.

He was blacklisted, and to his financial and social detriment, he refused to rescind his stand on his beliefs and remained opposed to the direction of US policies.

Conventional wisdom holds that the tribal revolt that overthrew Amanullah grew out of opposition to his reform program, although those people most affected by his reforms were urban dwellers not universally opposed to his policies, rather than the tribes.

Initially, Somalia tended to support those Arab countries such as Algeria, Iraq, and Libya that opposed United States policies in the Middle East.

* Although Tyler was elected vice president as a Whig, his policies soon proved to be opposed to most of the Whig agenda, and he was officially expelled from the party in 1841, a few months after taking office.

The intense debate over the Jay Treaty in 1794 – 95, transformed those opposed to Hamilton's policies from a loose movement into a true political party.

King was opposed in some policies by the Progressives, who opposed the high tariffs of the National Policy.