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		Constitutional Union Party, a political party organized for the United States election of 1860.
		Meeting in Baltimore in May 1860, the party nominated John Bell of Tennessee for president and Edward Everett of Massachusetts for vice president.
		In the November election the Constitutional Union party found its greatest strength among conservatives in the border states, where the effects of civil conflict were especially feared, although the ticket was supported throughout the nation.
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	Whig Party (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Whig Party was a political party of the United States from 1834 to 1860, formed to oppose the policies of President Andrew Jackson, a Democrat, and in particular supporting the supremacy of Congress over the Executive Branch and favoring a program of modernization and economic development.
		The Whig Party was formed in the winter of 1833-1834 at Washington dinner parties by National Republicans such as Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams, and by Southern States' Rights supporters such as W.
		In the 1836 elections the party was not yet sufficiently organized to run one nationwide candidate; instead William Henry Harrison ran in the northern and border states, Hugh Lawson White ran in the South, and Daniel Webster ran in his home state of Massachusetts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Whig_Party (1593 words)

	U.S. presidential election, 1860 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Upon confirming that the results were final, South Carolina declared "that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other states under the name of the 'United States of America' is hereby dissolved", precipitating the American Civil War.
		Having few opponents in the party, Abraham Lincoln received the party's nomination on the third ballot, May 16, 1860.
		Diehard former Whigs and Know-Nothings who felt they could not support the Democratic Party nor the Republican Party formed the Constitutional Union Party, nominating John C. Bell of Tennessee for president and Edward Everett for vice president in Baltimore on May 9, 1860 (one week before Lincoln was nominated).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_1860 (1019 words)

	Constitutional Union Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Constitutional Union Party was a political party in the United States created in 1860.
		In the 1860 election, the Constitutional Unionists received nearly all of their votes from former southern Whigs, and managed to win three states (Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee), although this was largely due to the split in Democratic votes between Stephen A. Douglas and John C. Breckinridge.
		Bell and many other Constitutional Unionists later supported the South during the Civil War, and the party and its purpose disappeared after 1860.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Constitutional_Union_Party (278 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.1, Entry 287, CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PARTY: Library of Economics and Liberty
		CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PARTY, The (IN), the name adopted in 1860 by the southern remnant of the defunct whig party.
		It seems to have unfortunately escaped the attention of the convention that the true interpretation of the three principles, which it announced as fixed and settled, was the question then in dispute and unsettled.
		The object of the resolution, however, though clumsily expressed, is sufficiently plain; it was an invitation to all patriotic voters to abandon the republican party, which attacked, and the democratic party, which defended slavery, and recur to the old whig programme of entirely ignoring slavery as a political question.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy287.html (591 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		The Galveston Constitutional Union party, one of the first to organize, almost appeared to be a gentleman's club; its members included a number of respected longtime Island City citizens and ex-Whigs.
		Union meetings were held in a number of counties between the San Antonio-Austin area and Galveston, including Colorado and Fayette.
		The party lost heavily to the regular Democrats in a statewide election on August 6, and party leaders began to call for fusion with the Douglas Democrats.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/wac1.html (1072 words)

	AllRefer.com - Constitutional Union party (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Constitutional Union party, in U.S. history, formed when the conflict between North and South broke down the older parties.
		The Constitutional Union group, composed of former Whigs and remnants of the Know-Nothings and other groups in the South, was organized just before the election of 1860.
		The party recognized "no political principle but the Constitution of the country, the union of the states and the enforcement of laws." The party carried Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia in the election.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/ConstituU.html (221 words)

	Constitutional Union Party -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		U.S. political party that sought in the pre-Civil War election of 1860 to rally support for the Union and the Constitution without regard to sectional issues.
		Formed in 1859 by former Whigs and members of the Know-Nothing Party, the party nominated John Bell for president and Edward Everett for vice president.
		The Whig Party was formally organized in 1834, bringing together a loose coalition of groups united in their opposition to what party members viewed as the executive tyranny of “King Andrew” Jackson.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9026016?tocId=9026016 (829 words)

	Background and Causes
		The formation of the party was prompted by the desire to muster popular sentiment in favor of the Union and against southern secession.
		The platform adopted by the party advocated support for "the Constitution of the country, the union of the States, and the enforcement of the laws," but took no stand on the slavery issue.
		The strength of the Constitutional Union Party, coupled with the split between the northern and southern sections of the Democratic Party, contributed to the victory of Abraham Lincoln, the Republican presidential candidate.
	www.civilwarhistory.com /070400/background_and_causes.htm (1798 words)

	Constitutional Union party — FactMonster.com
		Constitutional Union party, in U.S. history, formed when the conflict between North and South broke down the older parties.
		The Constitutional Union group, composed of former Whigs and remnants of the Know-Nothings and other groups in the South, was organized just before the election of 1860.
		The party recognized “no political principle but the Constitution of the country, the union of the states and the enforcement of laws.” The party carried Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia in the election.
	www.factmonster.com /id/A0813345 (198 words)

	Teacher Resources - Feature - Elections the American Way: Issues
		The Southern Democratic Party spun off from traditional Democrats to nominate John Breckenridge, an advocate of slavery in the West.
		Union soldiers were given absentee ballots or furloughed to permit them to vote.
		With mounting Union victories, the votes of soldiers and the campaign slogan, "Don't switch horses in mid-stream," Lincoln won the election.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/ndlpedu/features/election/issues3.html (404 words)

	Constitution Party National Political Headquarters
		The Internal Revenue Service has lost a lawyers challenge in front of a jury to prove a constitutional foundation for the nations income tax, and the victorious attorney now is setting his sights higher....
		Communications Director Mary Starrett highlights the country's third largest political party and contrasts the platforms of the two major parties with that of the Constitution Party in a new Constitution Party Promotional Video.
		Constitution Party Rick Jore's bill in the Montana House to ban U.N. flag moves forward.
	www.constitutionparty.com (530 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		In addition, the Republican Party platform of 1860 will be compared with the platforms of the two Democratic factions and the Constitutional Union Party to determine how the priorities of Lincoln and his party differed from the other parties in 1860, and how these differences eventually led to the dissolution of the Union.
		Democratic Party Platform (Stephen A. Douglas and the Northern Democrats, Baltimore Convention, June 18, 1860), found in the PDF for this lesson and at the EDSITEment-reviewed weblink Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Democratic Party Platform.
		Constitutional Union Party Platform (John Bell, Baltimore Convention, 1860), found in the PDF for this lesson.
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=662 (4049 words)

	Dorchester Reporter, Dorchester MA USA
		Many of the party's members were political warhorses striving to spare the nation from war between the North and the South.
		Their platform proclaimed "the Union as it is, and the Constitution as it is." In the Constitutional Unionists' ranks, proud-and-proper Yankee Everett found himself in alliance with Southern slaveholders as appalled by the prospect of civil war as he and other Northerners.
		In May 1860 at the Constitutional Union Party's convention, in Baltimore, the Dorchester politician agreed to become the running mate of with John Bell, of Tennessee, a large slaveholder, at the top of the ticket.
	www.dotnews.com /everretforveep.html (912 words)

	Valley of the Shadow
		Without holding the Democratic party directly responsible for the bloody scenes at Harper's Ferry, we are fully persuaded that it is responsible to a certain extent for that delusion in regard to the sentiments of Virginia, which lured old Brown to his doom.
		In the American party, to which the breaking up of old organizations gave birth, and which has been active in the endeavor to establish an intermediate power between the contending forces that have engrossed the field, will be found a very large element of conservative strength to increase the volume of the proposed organization.
		The only way to rescue the country from their hands is to organize a party whose cardinal principles shall be: To remove the subject of slavery from the arena of party politics, and leave it to the independent control of the States in which it exists, and to the unbiased action of the judiciary.
	valley.vcdh.virginia.edu /Browser1/aubrowser/ssfeb60.html (2116 words)

	Know-Nothing party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Party presidential candidate Millard Fillmore carried just one state (Maryland) in the 1856 election, and congressional strength dropped to 12 representatives.
		By 1859 the American Party's strength was largely confined to the border states.
		In 1860 remnants of the Know-Nothings joined old-line Whigs to form the Constitutional Union Party and nominated John Bell of Tennessee for president.
	search.eb.com /elections/micro/324/88.html (424 words)

	CheathemMark.htm
		He promised to cordially sustain the recent compromise measures enacted by the constitutional authorities of the land and to support the fugitive slave law because it was the expression of a constitutional injunction.
		The party platform, introduced at its March 1859 state convention, upheld the Union as the surest guaranty of the rights and interests of all sections of the country and resolved that agitation over the slavery issue led to no practical good to any portion of the country, and should, therefore, cease.
		The party refused to espouse a platform, calling instead for simple adherence to the broad foundation of the Constitution, and the Union of the States, and the enforcement of the laws.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /~shear/s2000.d/pa/CheathemMark.htm (4041 words)

	Selected Civil War Editorials - Excellent Links! [Free Republic]
		This gives the impression that Virginians are not united in their devotion to slavery and the South, and thus contributed to the fanaticism of John Brown and to the impression among other fanatics of the North that there is sympathy for the anti-slavery cause in Virginia.
		Report of meetings held by both wings of the Democratic party at the Staunton Court House, one endorsing the secessionists and nominating delegates to the convention to be held at Charlottesville, the other endorsing the regular Democrats and nominating delegates to the convention to be held in Staunton.
		Extremely lengthy editorial reflecting on the presidential election, and suggesting that the main goal of the Constitutional Union party is to defeat the Republicans.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3936dd9c3eca.htm (2464 words)

	Answers to last week's Minden trivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Republican Party, which was not on the ballot in Louisiana, nominated Abraham Lincoln of Illinois.
		The Constitutional Union Party, headed by John Bell of Tennessee, advocated preservation of the Union.
		Bell and the Union Party carried Minden on election day, and in the midst of the victory celebrations, a Dr. McCamey discovered a device rigged to set fire to his drugstore.
	www.press-herald.com /echoes/2004/0924echoes.html (1147 words)

	C-SPAN.ORG
		With increased migration to the west and the admission of new states to the Union, the debate over slavery's expansion underscored the sectional divisions that culminated in the election of l860.
		The Republican Party platform, calling for a halt to the extension of slavery, further instigated sectional tensions between the North and the South.
		The Constitutional Union Party promoted themselves as an "anti-extremist party" whose purpose was to block the Republicans.
	www.c-span.org /classroom/govt/1860.asp (916 words)

	Lincoln And The Civil War: 1860 - 1865
		Published in Portland, Maine, Voice from the Belfry sought to further the cause of the Constitutional Union Party at the state and national level.
		Its masthead motto announced the party’s three founding principles of saving the Union from breakup, upholding the Constitution, and enforcing the law.
		The newspaper emphasized the national character of the Constitutional Union Party contrasted with the sectionalism of the Democrats and Republicans.
	www.lincolnandthecivilwar.com /SubLevelPages/VoiceBelfry.asp (186 words)

	Morocco (11/94)
		Under the 1992 constitution, a prime minister appointed by the King is head of government.
		The Union of Socialist Popular Forces (USFP), established in 1974, is to the left of the Istiqlal, and its leaders present it as being in the tradition of the social democratic parties in Europe.
		The party bases its main support in urban areas and among younger, disaffected elements of society, and is led by Secretary General Ali Yata.
	www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/m/7685.htm (3855 words)

	Democratic Party
		The Republican Party was established at Ripon, Wisconsin in 1854 by a group of former members of the Whig Party and the Free-Soil Party.
		The party's first presidential candidate was John C. Fremont in 1856 who won 1,335,264 votes but was defeated by the Democrat, James Buchanan.
		In his cartoons the Democratic Party was a donkey and the Republican Party, an elephant.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAdemocratic.htm (1417 words)

	American Experience \| The Time of the Lincolns \| Partisan Politics
		Amid this turmoil, the Republican Party was born...
		The Liberty Party was the political outgrowth of the growing anti-slavery movement.
		The Constitutional Union Party was the anti-extremist party, absorbing Southern Whigs who didn't want to vote Democratic and Northern Whigs who felt the Republicans were too radical.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/lincolns/politics/tl_tree.html (1092 words)

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