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.

The Tory leaders, he insinuates, are cynically using the Church as a political `` By-word '' to increase party friction and keep themselves in power.

State Controller Arthur Levitt, on the other hand, cannot effectively deny that he has chosen to be the candidate of those party leaders who as a rule have shown livelier interest in political power than in the city's welfare.

Does the organization show an affinity for a foreign government, political party or personality in opposition or preference to the American system??

Since a national interpretation cannot be avoided it is unfortunate that the elections were not held in a way to maximize party responsibility and the educational effect of mass political participation.

The earlier political party structure failed to make accommodation among sectional differences.

In 1860, the last national political party, the Democratic Party, split along sectional lines.

* Party of Labour of Albania, the sole legal political party in Albania during communist rule ( 1946 – 1991 )

* Alliance for Progress and Freedom, Alliance pour le Progrès et la Liberté, a political party in Burkina Faso, a country in West Africa

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.

The Australian Labor Party ( also ALP and Labor, was Labour before 1912 ) is a social-democratic political party in Australia.

The party competes against the Liberal / National Coalition for political office at the federal and state ( and sometimes local ) level.

Labor is thus the country's oldest political party.

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.

As a Jeffersonian and Jacksonian, Johnson refused to toe any party line throughout his political career – though he primarily ran as a Democrat, with the exception of his vice-presidency.

From that time he supported the Democratic party and built a powerful political machine in Greene County.

The Australian Democrats is an Australian political party espousing a socially liberal ideology.

* Assembly for the Sovereignty of the Peoples, a political party in Bolivia

* All Basotho Convention, a political party in Lesotho

Therefore it soon announced and implemented a hostile doctrine against any political dissent, whether inside or outside the party.

* Action Congress of Nigeria, political party of Nigeria

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.

This may be considered a desirable outcome in cases where the party to the lawsuit is an organization with a transient membership and political perspective.

National Alliance (, AN ) was a conservative political party in Italy.

Gianfranco Fini, a moderniser who sees Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron as models, impressed an ambitious political line to the party, combining the pillars of conservative ideology like security, family values and patriotism with a progressive approach in other areas such as stem cell research and supporting voting rights for legal aliens.

His Cosmotheist Community Church, which was to be the second step in this plan, was organized in 1976, alongside Pierce's political projects: the National Alliance, National Vanguard Books, and the weekly broadcast American Dissident Voices.

For complex political reasons, the program had been given to the US Navy under Project Vanguard.

* Vanguard party, a political party at the forefront of a mass action, movement, or revolution, usually Leninist

* Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, a unionist political party in Northern Ireland during the 1970s

He later founded his own political party, the Moral Vanguard of the Fatherland, and in 2009 was again a candidate for the Panamanian general elections.

The Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party ( VUPP ), informally known as Ulster Vanguard, was a unionist political party which existed in Northern Ireland between 1972 and 1978.

It had its roots in the Vanguard or Ulster Vanguard wing of the Ulster Unionist Party who were opposed to the policies of the party's leader, and last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Brian Faulkner .< sup >#</ sup > The Ulster Vanguard movement was originally a political pressure group within the UUP.

The Vanguard Nationalist and Socialist Party was a minor political party in the Bahamas in the 1970s and 1980s.

Cayman Vanguard Party a political party in the Cayman Islands.

As-Sa ' iqa ( also transliterated as al-Saika, Saeqa, etc., from Arabic: الصاعقة meaning storm or thunderbolt ; also known as the Vanguard for the Popular Liberation War ) is a Palestinian Baathist political and military faction created and controlled by Syria.

The party continues to publish Vanguard on a monthly basis but otherwise conducts little visible political activity.

The party was established in 1974, as an alliance of the Working People's Vanguard Party, the Association for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa, the Indian Political Revolutionary Associates and Ratoon, and became a political party in 1989.

From here he became more involved in the political side of the movement and stood as a candidate for the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party in the Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1973 in South Antrim, although he was not elected.

Democratic Vanguard Party ( in Spanish: Partido Vanguardia Democrática ), was a political party in Peru.

Revolutionary Vanguard ( in Spanish: Vanguardia Revolucionaria ) was a political party in Peru founded in 1965 by various Marxist groups.

Popular Democratic Unity ( in Spanish: Unidad Democrático Popular ), was a political front in Peru founded in 1977 by Revolutionary Vanguard, Revolutionary Communist Party and Revolutionary Left Movement.

Revolutionary Vanguard ( Communist Proletarian ) ( in Spanish: Vanguardia Revolucionaria ( Proletario Comunista )) was a Maoist-oriented political party in Peru founded in 1977 by Eduardo Figari and Julio César Mezzich.

Mariateguist Unified Party ( in Spanish: Partido Unificado Mariateguista-PUM ) was a political party in Peru founded in 1984 by Revolutionary Vanguard ( VR ), Revolutionary Left Movement ( MIR ), Workers Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) and a sector of Revolutionary Communist Party ( PCR ).

The Vanguard rejected the parliamentary route of the Social Movement, preferring instead to work outside the political system to subvert democracy and bring about a return to fascism.

The former Soviet Super-Soldiers Darkstar, Vanguard, and Ursa Major eventually defected to the United States seeking political asylum.

The Moral and Social Vanguard Party Let's Go Colombia ( Partido Vanguardia Moral y Social Vamos Colombia ) is a progressive political party in Colombia.