From 2007 to 2008 she was the Liberal Democrats spokeswoman ( junior shadow minister ) for Women and Equality and Department for Communities and Local Government, and was a Lib Dem spokeswoman for Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2010, when the party entered government with the Conservatives.

She was previously the Liberal Democrats ' spokeswoman on Scotland and has chaired the Liberal Democrats ' Campaign for Gender Balance since 2004.

Then and throughout the war, Lincoln came under heavy, often vituperative attack from antiwar Democrats, called Copperheads.

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.

In 1988 the Liberals and Social Democrats merged to create what came to be called the Liberal Democrats.

The British and Danish Conservatives tried to maintain a group of their own called the European Democrats ( ED ), but lack of support and the problems inherent in maintaining a small group forced ED's collapse in the 1990s, and its members crossed the floor to join the EPP Group.

However, the consolidation was not unalloyed and a split emerged with the Eurosceptic MEPs who congregated in a subgroup within the group, also called the European Democrats ( ED ).

After the Dollfuss dictatorship took steps against known Social Democrats, the Social Democrats called for nationwide resistance against the government.

The war was fought from 27 January to 15 May 1918 between the forces of the Social Democrats led by the People's Deputation of Finland, commonly called the " Reds " (, ), and the forces of the non-socialist, conservative-led Senate, commonly called the " Whites " (, ).

The passing of the Tokoi Senate bill, called the " Power Act ," in July 1917 became the first one of the three culminations of the power struggle between the Social Democrats and the conservatives during the political crisis from March 1917 to the end of January 1918.

Following the political defeats in July and October 1917, on 1 November the Social Democrats put forward an uncompromising program called " We demand " in order to push for political concessions.

In November 2008, Pieter van Geel, the leader of the CDA ( Christian Democrats ) in the Dutch parliament, called for a ban on the cafes where marijuana is sold.

However, low membership and voter support in Germany's western states continued to plague the party on the federal level until it formed an electoral alliance in July 2005 with the Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice ( WASG ), a leftist faction of dissident Social Democrats and trade unionists, with the merged list being called the Left Party.

Since then there have been three democratic changes of government: in 1996, the democratic-liberal opposition and its leader Emil Constantinescu acceded to power ; in 2000 the Social Democrats returned to power, with Iliescu once again president ; and in 2004 Traian Băsescu was elected president, with an electoral coalition called Justice and Truth Alliance ( DA ).

In late 2006 a centre-left political alliance called Left and Democrats was created, comprising SLD and smaller centre-left parties, the Labour Union, the Social Democratic Party of Poland, and the liberal Democratic Party – demokraci. pl.

Republicans opposed the ratification process, and were infuriated that the Democrats were attempting to revise the entire constitution without calling a constitutional convention, as had been called for the state's two previous constitutions.

The UK, like several other states, has sometimes been called a " two-and-a-half " party system, because parliamentary politics is dominated by the Labour Party and Conservative Party, with the Liberal Democrats holding a significant number of seats ( but still substantially less than Labour and the Conservatives ), and several small parties ( some of them regional or nationalist ) trailing far behind in number of seats.

In 1873 – 75, he watched as the Democrats ( called Redeemers ) took the control of all but three Southern states.

Within the European Parliament, the Conservatives remained members of an bloc called the European Democrats ( ED ), which committed to sit with the EPP as the European People's Party-European Democrats ( EPP-ED ) parliamentary group until 2009.

He also called for measures to end lynching, but he did not want to make enemies in his own party and with the Democrats, and did not fight for his program.

The Social Democrats called for total male suffrage without property limitations.

Carl, who was stationed in Appleton, Wisconsin, organizing for the Social Democrats, was in Berger's office and made it his business to escort Paula to the streetcar.

For a freshman Congressman to read political Lessons to graybeard Democrats was poor policy for one who needed to make friends.

Registered Democrats in New York City this year have the opportunity to elect their party's candidates for Mayor and other municipal posts and the men who will run their party organization.

Take, for example, the reformers among New York City's Democrats.

-- Plans for a dramatic, broad-scale party rally in Los Angeles next December that would enlist top-drawer Democrats from all over the country.

If the Republicans and Southern Democrats join to defeat medical care for the old under the Social Security program, they will thereby erect still another barrier to GOP hopes in the cities.

To forestall any change of allegiance, the Democrats hastily organised a testimonial banquet for O'Banion, as public reward for his past services and as a reminder of where his loyalties lay.

Calling the Democrats the `` party that lives, breathes and thinks for the good of the people '', Hughes asked, `` a representative Democratic vote in the primary for a springboard toward victory in November ''.

Some anti-organization Democrats saw in the program an opportunity to end the bitter internal fight within the Democratic party that has been going on for the last three years.

Other speakers for the fund-raising dinner include Reps. Edith Green and Al Ullman, Labor Commissioner Norman Nilsen and Mayor Terry Schrunk, all Democrats.

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.

In 1949 the Dixiecrats escaped unscathed after their 1948 rebellion against Harry Truman, and in 1957, after Congressman Adam Clayton Powell campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, his fellow Democrats did not touch his committee assignments, although they did strip him temporarily of his patronage.

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.

Lincoln spent the next 100 days preparing the army and the nation for emancipation, while Democrats rallied their voters in the 1862 offyear elections by warning of the threat freed slaves posed to northern whites.

" 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.

As a leading War Democrat and pro-Union southerner, Johnson was an ideal candidate for the Republicans in the national election of 1864, as they sought to enlarge their base to include War Democrats ; they even changed the party name to the National Union Party to reflect this expansion.

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.

After two years of Democratic Party control, the Democrats lost control of Congress in the mid-term elections in 1994, for the first time in forty years.

As was the case with the Liberal Party for most of the 20th century, the Liberal Democrats face constant questioning about which of the other two parties they are closer to, in particular about which they would support in the event of a hung parliament.

A group of Liberal opponents of the merger with the Social Democrats, including Michael Meadowcroft ( formerly Liberal MP for Leeds West ) and Paul Wiggin ( who served on Peterborough City Council as a Liberal ), continued under the old name of " the Liberal Party ".

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.