Historically anti-union, the party has vacillated between state support for primary industries (" agrarian socialism ") and free agricultural trade and has opposed tariff protection for Australia's manufacturing and service industries.

Historically speaking, the dogma of the equality of man is the result of the adoption of the purely practical machinery of the majority but the adoption of the majority principle is also responsible for another institution of modern times: the party system.

Historically, the party has been the mainland party most pre-occupied by British Unionism, as attested to by the party's full name, the Conservative & Unionist Party.

Historically there have always been parties in States-Provincial ( provincial legislatures ) and Gemeenteraad ( municipal assemblies or city councils ) that were independent from the national party system.

Historically, however, the party has always upheld monarchism and links with Britain ( see the comment by Liberal Prime Minister Menzies above ).

Historically, In Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism anthropologist David M. Rosen discusses the creation of troops of boys aged twelve and up, modelled on the Hitler Youth, and armed by the Arab Nazi party in Palestine and that carried out military attacks as part of the 1936 – 1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.

Historically the PRI has been the dominant party in regional politics, until 1989 when the PAN began to dominate the city, until yet again, in 2004, PRI began regaining prominence and won the Mayor's Office.

Historically, this has usually meant that the Prime Minister is the parliamentary leader of the largest political party in the House of Representatives.

Historically they comprised the largest bloc of the original Canadian Conservative party.

Historically, ruling party ( majority in the Lok Sabha ) nominees eg United Progressive Alliance nominee Shri Pranab Mukherjee have been elected or largely elected unanimously.

Historically, the Liberals were the party of provincial rights, and the Conservatives for centralization, but that switched in the 20th century.

Historically, the party in control of the General Assembly would reassign control of agencies from the governor or to the governor based his party affiliation, and the party affiliation of the cabinet heads, which at times has left the governor with no direct control over state agencies.

Historically, both parties have used gerrymandering to gain political advantage, by drawing districts to favor their own party.

Historically, ruling party ( majority in the Lok Sabha ) nominees have been elected and run largely uncontested.

Historically, the only common situation in which it has been necessary to assign a single colour to a party has been in the production of political maps in graphical displays of election results.

Historically, it is a mass party with about 50, 000 members ( second after the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia ); most of them are of old age, however, and recruitment of new members can't keep the membership numbers from declining.

Historically, the British Columbia Social Credit Party was British Columbia's right-leaning coalition party between 1952 and 1991.

Historically, his election as leader has been interpreted as a victory of the provincial NDP's " establishment " over its extreme left-wing Waffle faction, because Lloyd was trying to move the party more to the political left, which meant he supported the Waffle Manifesto at the October 1969 Federal NDP convention in Winnipeg.

Historically, the most centrist party of all German parties with a parliamentary representation may have been the social-liberal German Democratic Party of the Weimar Republic ( 1918 – 1933 ), together with Alliance 90, the federation of citizen rights movements from the late phase of GDR.

Historically the CSU, as biggest party, appoints the second major.

Historically, the convention was the final determinant of the nomination, and often contentious as various factions of party insiders maneuvered to advance their candidates.

Historically, it was of particular relevance to sailing warships which used them to outmaneuver opponents when the wind had dropped but might be used by any vessel in confined, shoal water to place it in a more desirable position, provided she had enough manpower.

Historically, MLB had also used a 2-3 format in a best-of-5 series, but is rarely used.

Historically, women's bicycle frames had a top tube that connected in the middle of the seat tube instead of the top, resulting in a lower standover height at the expense of compromised structural integrity, since this places a strong bending load in the seat tube, and bicycle frame members are typically weak in bending.

Historically, the Upper Houses each had their own table.

Historically, this proceeded from the labours of Jean de Launoy ( 1603 – 1678 ), " le dénicheur des saints ", and Louis Sébastien le Nain de Tillemont, who had shown the falsity of numerous lives of the saints ; while theologically it was produced by the Port Royal school, which led men to dwell more on communion with God as contrasted with the invocation of the saints.

Historically, cryptography was split into a dichotomy of codes and ciphers ; and coding had its own terminology, analogous to that for ciphers: " encoding, codetext, decoding " and so on.

Historically, the form of the gallery evolved during the 10th century from the increasingly long hallways which had earlier been used to surround the central sanctuary of a temple.

Historically, the church had censured Knapp for deviating at several points from Eddy's teaching, and had refused to publish the work.

Historically, in Canada, whisky that had some rye grain added to the mash bill to give it more flavour came to be called “ rye ”.

Historically, the term originated in the mainframe field, where it had a well-defined meaning, very close to contemporary computer file.

Historically, lawyers in most European countries were addressed with the title of doctor, and countries outside of Europe have generally followed the practice of the European country which had policy influence through modernization or colonialization.

Historically, the majority of fiddle music was dance music, while violin music had either grown out of dance music or was something else entirely.

Historically, manual alphabets have had a number of additional applications — including use as ciphers, as mnemonics, and in silent religious settings.

Historically, John likely had a larger presence in the public mind than Jesus.

Historically, a marble or limestone edge runner mill, running on a limestone bed was used in Great Britain ; however, by the mid 19th century AD this had changed to either an iron shod stone wheel or a cast iron wheel running on an iron bed.

Historically it has had many definitions, but there are three definitions in current use: the imperial gallon (≈ 4. 546 L ) which since metrication is used colloquially in the United Kingdom and semi-officially within Canada, the United States ( liquid ) gallon (≈ 3. 79 L ), and the lesser used US dry gallon (≈ 4. 40 L ).

Historically, the Indo-European languages had eight morphological cases, though modern languages typically have fewer, using prepositions and word order to convey information that had previously been conveyed using distinct noun forms.

Historically, each of the several hundred small towns of Indiana had its own small school system.

Historically, land owners developed most roads and later Turnpike Trusts collected tolls so that as early as 1800 Ireland had a road network.

Historically, the telephone system on the Isle of Man had been run as a monopoly by the British General Post Office, and later British Telecommunications, and operated as part of the Liverpool telephone district.

Historically the Arvand Roud / Shatt-al-Arab waterway ( called Arvand Roud in Iran and Shatt-al-Arab in Iraq ) and Khuzestan Province was all that remained of their prior holdings in Mesopotamia, which had been lost to Turkey centuries earlier.

Historically, Jamaica has had close ties with the UK, but trade, financial, and cultural relations with the United States are now predominant.