King faced a delicate balancing act of reducing tariffs enough to please the Prairie-based Progressives, but not too much to alienate his vital support in industrial Ontario and Quebec, which needed tariffs to compete with American imports.

Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution ( 2003 )

In 2005 Lerner became chair of The Network of Spiritual Progressives whose mission was to " challenge the materialism and selfishness in American society and to promote an ethos of love, generosity, and awe and wonder at the grandeur of the universe.

In 2004 Lerner became chair of The Network of Spiritual Progressives whose mission was to " challenge the materialism and selfishness in American society and to promote an ethos of love, generosity, and awe and wonder at the grandeur of the universe.

The American Federation of Labor, the Socialist Party of America, the Conference for Progressive Political Action and most of the former supporters of the FF-LP along with various former " Bull Moose " Progressives and midwestern Progressive movement activists then joined La Follette and supported the Progressive Party.

However, even this meager showing was among the best for a U. S. third party between the 1924 Progressives and the 1948 Dixiecrats, although, according to Svend Petersen's " A Statistical History of the American Presidential Elections ," Norman Thomas ' percentage in 1932 was 2. 23 percent.

He drew from the American past a history of resistance to capitalist wage relations that was fundamentally liberal, and he reclaimed an idea that Progressives had allowed to lapse-that working for wages was a lesser form of liberty.

The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations.

Dionne's published works include the influential 1991 bestseller Why Americans Hate Politics, which argued that several decades of political polarization was alienating a silent centrist majority, as well as They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era ( 1996 ), Stand up Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and Politics of Revenge ( 2004 ), Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right ( 2008 ), and " Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent ( 2012 ).

* Crunden, Robert M. Ministers of Reform: The Progressives ' Achievement in American Civilization, 1889 – 1920 ( 1982 ) excerpt and text search

During the campaign, the Progressives stressed that they were not a party in the traditional sense and promised " A business ( not a party ) government ".

* The Progressives ( social liberals formerly of the Socialist Party ): Éric Besson

Progressives transformed, professionalized and made " scientific " the social sciences, especially history, economics, and political science.

His dissents on two cases, Hammer v. Dagenhart and Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company supported Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause ( in the Hammer case ) and the Taxing and Spending Clause ( in the Bailey case ) to address what Progressives saw as a major social problem.

Instead, he focused on the courses newly appearing at Columbia under the influence of the Pragmatists and Progressives: cabinet making, furniture design, and design more generally.

Anderton retained his seat but the Progressives ' share of the party vote remained low, at less than one percent.

The indication of the New Zealand First and United Future parties that they would support either National or Labour based on whichever received the most votes may have eroded the Progressives ' potential share of the vote alongside other minor parties.

Moreover, in the autumn of 1902 Sir Gordon Sprigg, the prime minister, nominally the leader of the Progressives, sought to maintain his position by securing the support of the Bond party in parliament.

The Progressives took up the Alliance's old position as Labour's junior coalition partner.

Goldwater ’ s position was at odds with most of the prominent members of the Republican Party, dominated by so-called Eastern Establishment and Midwestern Progressives.

The Conservative Party emerged as the largest parliamentary group in the election but did not win a majority of seats, leaving the Progressives in a kingmaker position.

Despite prolonged negotiations, King was unable to attract the Progressives into his government, but once Parliament opened, he relied on their support to defeat non-confidence motions from the Conservatives.

As King's term wore on, the Progressives gradually weakened.

In view of the agitation then proceeding for the introduction of Chinese coolies to work the mines on the Rand, the Progressives declared their intention, if returned, to exclude them from the colony, and this declaration gained them some native votes.

King was himself reliant on the UFA: his minority government was survived thank to the support of Progressives and allied factions, including the 11 UFA MPs.

Caprivi also lost the support of the National Liberals and Progressives in a legislative defeat of 1892 on an educational bill providing denominational board schools, a failed attempt to re-integrate the Catholic Centre Party after the Kulturkampf.

Zeidler was elected Milwaukee County County Surveyor in 1938 on the Progressive Party ballot line ( the Socialist Party and Progressives were in coalition in Milwaukee at that time ).

" Nevertheless, Sunday sided with Progressives on some issues.

New Zealand's 48th Parliament operated with both a coalition and a looser agreement: the government was a coalition between the Labour Party and the Progressives, while United Future and New Zealand First had an agreement to support the government on confidence matters, while the Green Party abstained.

The Liberal Party joined with the Progressives to nominate Ubico as Chacón's successor, and although he was the only candidate on the ballot, he received 305, 841 votes.

In it, he articulates a vision of progressive values based on four core lessons: 1 ) Progressives stand with people, not privilege ; 2 ) Progressives believe in the Common Good and a government that offers a hand up ; 3 ) Progressives hold that all people are equal in the eyes of God and under the law ; and 4 ) Progressives stand for universal human rights and cooperative global security.

In the first election to the borough council, held on 1 November 1900 the Progressives gained a majority, with 22 of the 30 councillors.

The Progressives increased their majority to 24 at the 1903 elections, and in 1906 they won all the seats on the council.

The Queen Consort was completely enamored by the Progressives in the beginning, but when she learned that they were deeply anti-Chinese, she quickly turned her back on them.

However, the Progressives, fed up with the Sadaes and the growing influence of the Chinese, sought the aid of the Japanese legation guards and staged a bloody palace coup on the 4th of December 1884.

J. S. Woodsworth, using his right as the leader of the Independent Labour MPs, moved a stronger amendment to the budget based on demands the Progressives had made in earlier years but had since abandoned.

The government's foreshore and seabed bill passed its first vote in Parliament on the 7th of May 2004, backed by Labour, the Progressives, and New Zealand First.

While Meighen and other Conservatives expressed public outrage at what they viewed as a desperate attempt on the part of King to cling to power, some Conservatives were privately relieved by King's decision ; they seriously doubted whether the Tories could convince the Progressives to support a Conservative government, were confident that King's attempt to remain in power would eventually fail, and thought the expected debacle would be so damaging to the Liberals ' reputation that the Conservatives would then be swept into office with a large majority.

The Progressives were already distancing themselves from the government because of its failure to transfer control of Alberta's natural resources from the federal government to the province, but in June had saved the government from defeat in a no-confidence motion on the matter.

In the parliamentary election 1933 the main campaign issues were the differing attitudes towards democracy and the rule of law between the Patriotic Electoral Alliance ( National Coalition Party and Patriotic People's Movement ) and the Legality Front ( Social Democrats, Agrarian League, Swedish People's Party and Progressives ).

A number of the original Board members departed the Progressive Muslim Union in the summer of 2005 due to an inability to reach agreement on a number of controversial issues, most notably the degree to which Progressives should engage more conservative Muslim organizations and scholars.