He laughed at a story that he planned to bolt the party if he was not nominated.

After the state Republican party convention nominated him for the U. S. Senate in 1858, Lincoln delivered his House Divided Speech, drawing on: " A house divided against itself cannot stand.

As far as partisan systems, in some countries, only members of a particular political party can be nominated.

After the party nominated Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona instead, Robinson left the party's convention commenting that he now had " a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany ".

The presidential elections held in 1988 marked a watershed in Mexican politics, as they were the first serious threat to the party in power by an opposition candidate, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a defector from the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) and son of former President Lazaro Cardenas, who was nominated by a broad coalition of leftist parties.

Though he did vote against the admission of Missouri as a slave state, and though he would be the nominated presidential candidate of the Free Soil Party, an anti-slavery political party, in 1848, there was no ambiguity in his position on the abolition of slavery during his term of office.

Although he was supported by left wing members within Labour such as Michael D. Higgins, he had little or no contact with Dick Spring and therefore had to live in hope of being nominated without the endorsement of the party leadership.

The possibility that Browne might be nominated raised the possibility of an internal argument within the party.

The party ultimately nominated the former civil rights campaigner Austin Currie, a respected new TD and former minister in Brian Faulkner's power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland from 1973 – 74.

The ability to adapt to the various internal procedures of the contracting party, and to form close links with the nominated representatives, is essential in ensuring that the key issues of cost, time, quality and above all, client satisfaction, can be realized.

However, in 1848 the Earl of Elgin, the then Governor General, appointed a Cabinet nominated by the majority party of the Legislative Assembly, the Baldwin-Lafontaine coalition that had won elections in January.

Following the assassination of his mother in 1984 after Operation Blue Star, the Indian National Congress party leaders nominated him to be Prime Minister.

As a result, ten seats were added to the Legislative Assembly, five to be nominated by each party.

On 16 September, the president nominated Yaovi Agboyibor of the Action Committee for Renewal ( CAR ) prime minister, snubbing the major opposition party Union of the Forces of Change ( UFC ) which in reaction refused to join the government.

Since 1836, no major U. S. party has nominated multiple regional presidential or vice presidential candidates in an election.

According to Dern, who ran twice as a Natural Law candidate for U. S. Senate and once for the Hartland Township Board of Trustees, the party will appear on the 2012 presidential ballot ticket In August 2012, the party nominated former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson for president.

In partisan elections, candidates are nominated by a political party or seek public office as an independent.

The United States Reform Party nominated party founder Ross Perot of Texas in its first election as an official political party.

With deep fissures in the party on this question, the anti-slavery faction prevented the re-nomination of its own incumbent President Fillmore in the 1852 presidential election ; instead, the party nominated General Winfield Scott.

Smith is often identified as the first woman to be nominated for President by a major party.

* June 29 – 1928 Democratic National Convention: At the Democratic National Convention in Houston, New York Governor Alfred E. Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated by a major political party for President of the United States.

" Those nominated would be bound to the Chief Whip of their party through a sort of oath and Powell asked " what sort of men and women are they to be who would submit to be nominated to another chamber upon condition that they will be mere dummies, automatic parts of a voting machine?

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.

When, in my enthusiasm, I proposed the party, my city editor ( who disliked the club and many of its members ) tried to block my participation in the gala event.

A GOP `` task force ' committee will seek to find out how its party may win support from the ethnic and minority groups in cities.

The Republican party was not lacking in humanity, but it permitted its extremely partisan leadership to make it appear devoid of any consideration for people in trouble.

If it failed on occasion to elect its candidates for general state offices by majorities, the failure was due to a lingering remnant of the Know-Nothing party, which called itself the American Republican party.

The Republicans must hold a primary under the county unit system -- a system which the party opposes in its platform.

With a Democratic administration, party patronage would normally begin to flow to Mississippi if it had held its Democratic solidarity in the November election.

Party leaders came out of the final meeting apparently satisfied and stated that complete agreement had been reached on a solution to the crisis created by the elections which left no party with enough strength to form a government on its own.

Most Republicans agreed with Lincoln that the North was the aggrieved party, as the Slave Power tightened its grasp on the national government with the Dred Scott decision and the presidency of James Buchanan.

Lincoln provided Grant with more troops and mobilized his party to renew its support of Grant in the war effort.

An appellee is the party to an appeal in which the lower court judgment was in its favor.

Public demonstrations usually take place without government interference, though one rally in November 2000 by an opposition party was followed by the arrest and imprisonment for a month of its organizer.

It is a humorous political critique, aimed squarely at the then ruling party Partido Revolucionario Institucional ( PRI ) and its paramilitary caciques, at a time when freedom of speech in politics was highly restricted.

In order to eliminate one of the problems of the reign of Elizabeth, the single party and its destabilizing consequences, the Liberal Party was allowed to incorporate and participate in National Politics, and the ' turnism ' or alternanation was to become the new system.

The African National Congress ( ANC ) is South Africa's governing political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) and the South African Communist Party ( SACP ), since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994.

In 2009 its share of the vote reduced slightly, but it remained the dominant party with 65. 9 % of the votes.

They were able to open the gate and allow a much larger party who set fire to the town and plundered its churches and homes leaving Abergavenny Castle intact.

The use of abeyance in such instances can allow such an organization to ' settle ' with the party without officially binding its actions in the future, should a new group of decision makers within the organization choose to pursue taking the dispute to court.

While the 7800 can actually play hundreds of titles due to its compatibility with the Atari 2600, there was limited third party support for the 7800 and fewer than 100 titles were specifically designed for it.

Gianfranco Fini was the leader of the party since its foundation in 1995, however he stepped down in 2008 after being elected to the nominally non-partisan post of President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and was succeeded by Ignazio La Russa, who managed to merge the party into The People of Freedom ( PdL ).

National Alliance, launched in 1994, was officially founded in January 1995, when the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ), the former neo-fascist party, merged with conservative elements of the former Christian Democracy, which had disbanded in 1994 after two years of scandals and various splits due to corruption at its highest levels, exposed by the Mani Pulite investigation, and the Italian Liberal Party, disbanded in the same year.

Starting in the 1990s, the MSI gradually transformed into a mainstream right-wing party, culminating in its 1995 dissolution into AN.

The party had roughly 10-15 % support across Italy, having its stongholds in Central and Southern Italy ( Lazio 18. 6 %, Umbria 15. 2 %, Marche 14. 3 %, Abruzzo 14. 3 %, Puglia 13. 2 %, Sardinia 12. 9 %, Tuscany 12. 6 % and Campania 12. 6 % in the last general election ), scoring badly in Lombardy ( 10. 2 %) and Sicily ( 10. 9 %), while competing in the North-East ( Friuli-Venezia Giulia 15. 5 % and Veneto 11. 3 %).