Republicanism

Examples of Republicanism in the following topics:

• The Rise of the Republican Party

  • The Republican Party was formed out of a loose coalition of Northern ex-Whigs who resented Southern political power.
  • Republicans were opposed to the perceived "anti-modernity" of the Southern slave culture and rallied behind the slogan of “Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men,” which they argued was representative of classical American republicanism.
  • This ideology cast the Republicans as the true heirs of the Jeffersonians.
  • However, it is important to note that mainstream Republicans were not inherently antislavery or abolitionist.
  • Explain why the Republican Party emerged after the collapse of the Whig Party

• The Clinton Administration Moves Right

  • Prior to this, Republicans had not held the majority of governorships since 1972.
  • Republican George Allen won the Virginia governorship.
  • Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison took a senate seat from the Democrats in Texas.
  • The 1994 elections also ushered in a great number of Republican freshmen.
  • In the Senate, 11 of 54 (20%) Republicans were freshmen.

• The Republican Party

  • Eighteen presidents have been Republicans; most recently, George W.
  • By 1858, the Republicans dominated nearly all Northern states.
  • The Republican Party first came to power in 1860 with the election of Lincoln to the Presidency and Republicans in control of Congress and again, the Northern states .
  • The Republican Party, led by House Republican Minority Whip Newt Gingrich campaigning on the Contract with America, was elected to majorities to both houses of Congress in the Republican Revolution of 1994.
  • The party's founding members chose the name "Republican Party" in the mid-1850s as homage to the values of republicanism promoted by Thomas Jefferson's Republican Party.

• The Republican Alternative

  • The Democratic-Republican Party, was an American political party founded around 1791 by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
  • The Republican Party, usually called the Democratic-Republican Party, was an American political party founded about 1791 by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
  • In 1801, the Democrat-Republicans came to power with Jefferson's election to president.
  • Despite the fact that Britain was America's leading trading partner, Republicans feared that trade alliances with Britain would undermine the American republican project.
  • Federalists spread rumors that the Republicans were radicals who would ruin the country, while the Republicans accused Federalists of destroying republican values by favoring aristocratic, anti-republican principles.

• Reform and the Election of 1872

  • Grant had supported a patronage system that allowed Republicans to infiltrate and control state governments.
  • The Liberal Republicans thought that the Grant Administration, and the president personally, were fully corrupt.
  • With these goals achieved, the tenets of republicanism demanded that federal military troops be removed from the South, where they were propping up allegedly corrupt Republican regimes.
  • The Liberal Republicans successfully ran B.G.
  • Grant also favored amnesty to former Confederate soldiers like the Liberal Republicans.

• The 2010 Elections

  • Indeed, the Republicans gained 63 seats in the U.S.
  • The Republicans also gained control of 29 of the 50 state governorships.
  • A fourth factor that contributed to the Republican victories was the mobilizing ability of the Tea Party movement in favor of Republican candidates .
  • The Tea Party movement's ability to mobilize voters in favor of the Republican Party was one of the factors that contributed to many Republican victories during the 2010 elections.
  • Explain the political forces that contributed to the Republicans success in the 2010 elections

• The Modern Era of Political Parties

  • Modern politics in the United States is a two-party system dominated by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
  • The other major contemporary political party in the United States is the Republican Party.
  • Founded in 1854 by Northern anti-slavery expansion activists and modernizers, the Republican Party rose to prominence with the election of Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican to campaign on the Northern principles of anti-slavery.
  • Bush was the 19th Republican to hold that office.
  • USA Today's review of state voter rolls indicates that registered Republicans declined in 21 of the 28 states that register voters by party, and that Republican registrations were down 350,000 in 2011.

• The "Reign of Witches"

  • The "Reign of Witches" was a descriptive catchphrase used by Democratic-Republicans to criticize the Federalist Alien and Sedition Acts.
  • "The Reign of Witches" is a termed used by Democrat-Republicans to describe the Federalist party and John Adams after the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
  • Hence, Jefferson, Madison, and other Democratic-Republicans combatted the Alien and Sedtion acts by mobilizing widespread party support during the1800 election campagin and defending those persecuted under the legislation.
  • They were signed into law by President John Adams and were intended as a direct political attack on the Democrat-Republicans.
  • The Federalist-dominated Congress believed that Democrat-Republicans, fueled by the French and French-sympathizing immigrants, posed a subversive threat to the United States.

• Congressional Campaign Committees

  • The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is the Republican Hill committee which works to elect Republicans to the United States House of Representatives.
  • It supports the election of Republicans to the House through direct financial contributions to candidates and Republican Party organizations; technical and research assistance to Republican candidates and Party organizations; voter registration, education and turnout programs; and other Party-building activities.
  • Pete Sessions (TX-32) , and an executive committee composed of Republican members of the U.S.
  • The Chairman is elected by the House Republican Conference after each Congressional election.
  • Republican Leader John Boehner and the seven other elected leaders of the Republican Conference of the House of Representatives serve as ex-officio members of the NRCC's executive committee.

• The Republican Victory

  • The election of 1800 marked a peaceful transition of power from Federalists to Democratic-Republicans.
  • Federalists spread rumors that the Republicans were radicals who would ruin the country (based on the Republican support for the French Revolution).
  • Meanwhile, the Republicans accused Federalists of destroying republican values by favoring aristocratic, anti-republican principles.
  • While Democratic-Republicans were firmly aligned behind Jefferson and Burr, the Federalists began to fracture.
  • However the Republicans neglected to have one of their electors abstain from voting for Burr, which created a tie.