The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

But it seems that pressures against him are coming from somewhere -- in the first place from China, but perhaps also from that `` China Lobby '' which, I was assured in Moscow nearly two years ago, exists on the quiet inside the party.

At two thirty he sent Fujimoto to the top of the wall at the northeast corner of the mission to keep an eye on the ridge road and give a signal when he first glimpsed the approach of Kayabashi's party.

Although the government was probably prepared for elections by mid-1958, the first decision was no doubt made more difficult as party strife multiplied.

Here he put a small man, whose missing hands might have left his function doubtful, until comparison with the first sketches showed that when the artist came back to the beginning, this was to be the closing figure of the party of `` forty-niners '', and was to hold a basket.

The controversial remark was first made Sunday by Hughes at a Westfield Young Democratic Club cocktail party at the Scotch Plains Country Club.

Mississippi's relations with the national Democratic party will be at a crossroads during 1961, with the first Democratic president in eight years in the White House.

He remembered the first time he saw her, standing across the room at a party.

There were thousands of Republican speakers who focused first on the party platform, and second on Lincoln's life story, emphasizing his childhood poverty.

Constantius wavered in his support between the first and the second party, while harshly persecuting the third.

* 1965 – The infamous first Reyes party between Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hells Angels takes place at Kesey's estate in La Honda, California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell's Angels.

The ALP was founded as a federal party prior to the first sitting of the Australian Parliament in 1901, but is descended from Labour parties founded in the various Australian colonies by the emerging labour movement in Australia, formally beginning in 1891.

Labor was the first party in Australia to win a majority in either house of the Australian Parliament, at the 1910 federal election.

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

Their party was defeated ( 2 May 1182 ), but Andronikos Komnenos, a first cousin of Emperor Manuel, took advantage of these disorders to aim at the crown, entered Constantinople, where he was received with almost divine honours, and overthrew the government.

Additionally, a wide range of first and third party hardware extensions such as external disk drives, printers, and memory extensions, was available.

* 1904 – The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.

* 1873 – American Indian Wars: while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River ; only one man on each side is killed.

The first party to successfully cross the Blue Mountains just outside Sydney was led by Gregory Blaxland in 1813, 25 years after the colony was established.

The party had a good showing in the first general election to which it took part ( 13. 5 % in 1994 ) and reached 15. 7 % in 1996, when Fini tried for the first time to replace Silvio Berlusconi as leader of the centre-right.

The election gave Democrats full control of the United States Congress, the first time one party controlled both the executive and legislative branches since Democrats held the 95th United States Congress during the Jimmy Carter presidency in the late 1970s.

After the fall of the communism in 1990, the former communist party changed to Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) and won the first post-communist elections for the new constitution in 1990 with a small majority.

After six years in opposition, Disraeli and the Conservative Party won the election of 1874, giving the party its first absolute majority in the House of Commons since the 1840s.

To cover their real purpose, the first government visitors to Bletchley Park described themselves as " Captain Ridley's shooting party ".

Aachen was chosen as the site of several important congresses and peace treaties: the first congress of Aachen ( often referred to as Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle in English ) in 1668, leading to the First Treaty of Aachen in the same year which ended the War of Devolution.

A year later, Herzl founded the Zionist Organization ( ZO ), which at its first congress, " called for the establishment of a home for the Jewish people in Palestine secured under public law ".

In more recent times, the World Zionist Organization held its first congress in Basel on September 3, 1897.

In the early years, speakers of Esperanto kept in contact primarily through correspondence and periodicals, but in 1905 the first world congress of Esperanto speakers was held in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.

A small international conference was held in 1904, leading to the first world congress in August 1905 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.

At the first Esperanto congress, in Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1905, a declaration was made which defined an " Esperantist " merely as one who knows and uses the language " regardless of what kind of aims he uses it for ", and which also specifically declared any ideal beyond the spread of the language itself to be a private matter for the individual speaker.

There have been numerous other expressions of discontent within Fatah, which is just holding its first general congress in two decades.

* 1961 – The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.

* 1958 – The African Regroupment Party ( PRA ) holds its first congress in Cotonou.

* 1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.

Though few in the new congress wanted to debate a possible Bill of Rights ( for the next century, most thought that the Declaration of Independence, not the first ten constitutional amendments, constituted the true Bill of Rights ), Madison pressed the issue.

* 1955 – The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.

Cannon is also ( still ) the longest serving Republican House of Representatives member ever, the second longest serving Republican member of congress ever, as well as first member of congress, of either party, ever to surpass 40 years of service ( non-consecutive ), ending his career with 46 years of cumulative congressional service, a record that held until 1959.

On April 17, 1950 ( 25 years to the day before the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh ), the first nationwide congress of the Khmer Issarak groups convened, and the United Issarak Front was established.

According to the anarchist historian Max Nettlau, the first use of the term libertarian communism was in November 1880, when a French anarchist congress employed it to more clearly identify its doctrines.

In the meantime, after a period of secret police repression and internal confusion that followed the first party Congress in 1898, Iskra succeeded in convening the party's 2nd congress in London in August 1903.

The first congress went as planned, with Iskra supporters handily defeating the few " economist " delegates.

Rosa LuxemburgLeft communism ' is the range of communist viewpoints held by the communist left, which criticizes the political ideas of the Bolsheviks at certain periods, from a position that is asserted to be more authentically Marxist and proletarian than the views of Leninism held by the Communist International after its first and during its second congress.

Although delegates from the Soviet Union and Comintern had attended, the first congress ignored Lenin's advice by refusing to accept a temporary alliance between the communists and the " bourgeois democrats " who also advocated national revolution ; instead they stuck to the orthodox Marxist belief that only the urban proletariat could lead a socialist revolution.

The congress, which met on September 30, 1813, was certainly the first of its kind in Latin America.

The delegates rejected a proposal for Paraguayan attendance at a constitutional congress at Buenos Aires and established a Paraguayan republic, the first in Spanish America, with Francia as first consul.

They lacked the authority to rule and chaos continued until in March 1841 when congress chose Carlos Antonio López as first consul.

The IWA held a preliminary conference in 1865, and had its first congress at Geneva in 1866.