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  Progressive Party (United States) - MSN Encarta
The first Progressive Party, known colloquially as the Bull Moose Party, was founded after a bitter fight for the Republican presidential nomination among the incumbent president William H. Taft, the Wisconsin senator Robert M. La Follette (leader of the Republican Party's progressive “insurgents”), and the former president Theodore Roosevelt.
Although the Progressives greatly outpolled the Republicans in the election, the net result was a victory for the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson.
A third Progressive Party was formed in 1948 by dissident Democrats, most of whom had been prominent in developing the New Deal program of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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  Progressive Party (United States, 1924) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The party prepresented a farmer/labor coalition and was endorsed by the Socialist Party of America, the American Federation of Labor and many railroad labor groups.
The son was elected in 1925 under the Republican party banner and joined the GOP caucus in the Senate.
In 1936 the Progressive Party of Wisconsin endorsed Roosevelt for reelection.
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 Progressive Party (United States, 1912) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Progressive Party also endorsed a number of sympathetic candidates from the Republican and Democratic parties in state and federal elections from 1912 to 1916.
Roosevelt's philosophy for the Progressive Party was based around New Nationalism, which was the belief in a strong government to regulate industry and protect the middle and working classes.
But the progressive movement was strongest at the state level, and, therefore, the new party had to field candidates for governor and state legislature.
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 United States v. Progressive, Inc. (1979)
The government states that a court must look at the nature and context of prior disclosures and analyze what the practical impact of the prior disclosures are as contrasted to that of the present revelation.
He stated that the release of this information would be contrary to the United States' effort to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons and requested that The Progressive refrain from publishing the article.
The case was subsequently transferred to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/progressive.html   (5079 words)

  
 Progressive - dKosopedia
Progressive is a characterization of political belief and practice generally to the left of liberal and to the right of Marxist, yet sharing important overlap with both.
Progressive is a political philosophy focused not directly on ideals but on progressing the state of culture toward supporting equity and justice for all.
Progressive - The wellspring of political ideology for the Democratic party in the United States.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Republican Party (United States)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Organized in Ripon, Wisconsin on February 28, 1854, as a party opposed to the expansion of slavery into new territories, the Party is not to be confused with the Democratic-Republican party of Thomas Jefferson or the National Republican Party of Henry Clay.
In fact, the ideology of the reborn Republican party is seen by some as the successor to the Federalist Party (United States) of John Adams and Alexander Hamilton.
The post-war emergence of the United States as one of two superpowers and rapid social change caused the Republican Party to divide into a conservative faction (dominant in the West and Southeast) and a liberal faction (dominant in New England) – combined with a residual base of inherited progressive Midwestern Republicanism active throughout the century.
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 United States Progressive Party
The United States Progressive Party refers to three distinct political parties in 20th century United States presidential politics.
Declaring he was "fit as a bull moose" (giving the party a nickname), Roosevelt ran on the Progressive Party ticket in the 1912 Presidential election.
In 1948, another Progressive Party was formed toward the end of electing Henry A. Wallace president.
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 Progressive Party
The Progressive Party, first known colloquially as the Bull Moose party, was founded after a bitter fight for the Republican presidential nomination between William H. Taft, Robert La Follette and Theodore Roosevelt.
Progressive candidates for state and local offices did poorly, and the party dissapeared in 1916 when Roosevelt returned to the Republican Party.
Fearing that a formal party organization would be infiltrated by Communists, he ran as an independent, but later accepted the nomination of the Progressive party.
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 United States Republican Party   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The party was organized in Ripon Wisconsin on February 28 1854 as a party against the expansion slavery.
It is not to be confused the Democratic-Republican party of Thomas Jefferson or the National Republican Party of Henry Clay.
The progressive protectionist political and beloved William McKinley was the last Civil War veteran President and embodied the Republican ideals of progress invention education and patriotism.
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 United States Republican Party - JnanaBase   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The current President of the United States, George W. Bush, is a member of the party – and by rules common to both major U.S. parties, its head – and it has majorities in the Senate and the House of Representatives, as well as in governorships and state legislative seats.
The party was organized in Ripon, Wisconsin on February 28, 1854 by a coalition of former Whigs, Northern Democrats, and Free Soilers who opposed the expansion of slavery and held a Hamiltonian vision for modernizing the United States.
The party is split on the issue of federally funding embryonic stem cell research that involves the cloning and killing of human embryos, with many seeing it as unethical to force tens of millions of tax payers who believe this type of research is morally wrong to finance it.
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 United States v. Progressive (1979)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The complaint in this action was filed by the plaintiff, United States of America, in the United States District Court, Western District of Wisconsin, on March 8, 1979.
On March 9, 1979, the Honorable James E. Doyle, United States District Judge, Western District of Wisconsin, disqualified himself from this proceeding pursuant [999] to 28 U.S.C. § 455(a).
The case was subsequently transferred to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
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 Progressive Platform of 1912  The conscience of the people
The Progressive party, believing that a free people should have the power from time to time to amend their fundamental law so as to adapt it progressively to the changing needs of the people, pledges itself to provide a more easy and expeditious method of amending the Federal Constitution.
It is as grotesque as it is intolerable that the several States should by unequal laws in matter of common concern become competing commercial agencies, barter the lives of their children, the health of their women and the safety and well being of their working people for the benefit of their financial interests.
The Progressive party, in order to secure to the people a better administration of justice and by that means to bring about a more general respect for the law and the courts, pledges itself to work unceasingly for the reform of legal procedure and judicial methods.
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 Progressive Party - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Progressive Party, name of three distinct historical political parties in the United States.
Progressive Conservative Party, Canadian political party; its members were called either Tories or Conservatives.
During the 1890s both major parties were hurt by the rise of agrarian protest, but infighting proved most divisive among the Democrats; their...
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 Federalist Party (United States) Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In most states the congressional elections were recognized, as Jefferson strategist John Beckley put it, as a "struggle between the Treasury department and the republican interest." In New York, the race for governor was organized along these lines.
Militia officers, state's attorneys, lawyers, professors and schoolteachers were in the van of this "conscript army." In all, about a thousand or eleven hundred dependent officer-holders were described as the inner ring which could always be depended upon for their own and enough more votes within their control to decide an election.
The Federalists were generally not equal to the tasks of party organization, and grew steadily weaker as the fortunes of the so-called Virginia Dynasty grew.
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 Marc J. Epstein on the Progressive Party of 1948   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Wallace believed that the United States was not doing enough to accommodate the security needs of the Soviet Union; that we reserved rights for ourselves and our allies which we attempted to deny the Soviets; that, finally, both superpowers were stumbling toward a third world war neither could survive.
The party members were all leftists of a more or less liberal stripe who blended on their own left wing with communist sympathizers and on their right with establishment liberals and old time populists.
Among their objectives were progressive taxation, federal aid to education, the end to all forms of Jim Crow, a women's rights amendment to the Constitution, government ownership of the power industry, national economic planning and wide expansion of the federal welfare system-social security, health and unemployment insurance.
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 United States Republican Party - JnanaBase   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The current President of the United States, George W. Bush, is a member of the party – and by rules common to both major U.S. parties, its head.
The party was organized in Ripon, Wisconsin on February 28, 1854 by a coalition of former Whigs, Northern Democrats, and Free Soilers who opposed the expansion of slavery and held a Hamiltonian vision for modernizing the United States.
The party is split on the issue of federally funding embryonic stem cell research that involves the cloning and killing of human embryos, with many seeing it as unethical to force tens of millions of tax payers who believe this type of research is morally wrong to finance it.
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 Progressive Party (United States) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Progressive Party (United States) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Taft lost support in 1912, however, when Roosevelt, who disagreed with him on tariff policy and railroad regulation, entered the presidential race as...
The name Progressive Party has been assigned to a collection of parties in the United States over the past century or so.
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 United States History
Progressives attacked “invisible government”—political hacks were replaced by professional civil service workers who made the system run, and who were hired on the basis of professional qualifications rather than for political reward.
Among the millions of immigrants who flooded to the United States between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the First World War were many working-class people and their sympathizers who were strongly influenced by communist and socialist trends in Europe.
Although the Progressive Movement is considered to have ended with the outbreak of the First World War, the Progressive Party continued to thrive, and many liberal politicians were—and still are—comfortable being identified as Progressives.
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 Joint Communique of the United States of America and the People's Republic of China - US Department of State
The United States will work for a just and secure peace: just, because it fulfills the aspira- tions of peoples and nations for freedom and progress; secure, because it removes the danger of foreign ag- gression.
The United States believes that the effort to reduce ten- sions is served by improving communication between countries that have different ideologies so as to lessen the risks of confrontation through accident, miscalculation or misunderstanding.
The United States and the People's Republic of China are prepared to apply these principles to their mutual relations.
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 Green Party News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Progressive Party said that it has been approved by the secretary of state to field candidates in six races this fall.
Party organizers said they are affiliated with the Green Party of the United States.
A Green Party candidate is challenging Democrats in the April 8 election for alderman in the 24th Ward.
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 United States Libertarian Party - Wikinfo
As in any political party, there is some internal disagreement about the platform, and not all the party's supporters advocate its complete implementation, but most think that the USA would benefit from most of the Libertarian Party's proposed changes.
Unlike the Greens (one in Maine), the Independence Party (one in Minnesota), the Progressive Party (four in Vermont), the Republican Moderate Party (one in Alaska), and the Working Families Party (one in New York), the Libertarians currently have no representatives in state legislatures.
Members of third parties often complain that the U.S. electoral system is biased against third parties by first-past-the-post voting and, in many states, by onerous ballot access laws.
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The Omaha action at Party Poker is improving do to the fact that they are concentrating their marketing on European players.
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 New Zealand Progressive Political Party - Robson-On-Politics - 1 November 2006
There is also no question that Parliament's decisions in the 1980s and 1990s to relax liquor marketing standards, liberalize liquor retailing rules and reduce the purchasing age, contributed to an increase in problems experienced by some very young teenagers and caused pain and suffering to them and their families.
I think it is a completely indefensible position for the leader of a party that claims to be in Parliament as the champion of families.
United's policy platform promotes significant increases in government spending at the same time as it promotes expensive cuts to government revenue - via income tax cuts and changes to income tax rules.
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 The Democratic Party | PartyBuilder | The Liberal Democratic party of the United States of America
We the people of the United States of America form this Liberal Democratic party of the United States of America for the promotion of a progresive agenda for America.
Our power comes from the unionization of our party members who tell GOP contributors and other regressive contributors that either you get the House and Senate and the President to enact our party platform at the present point into law or you lose our business as consumers.
Party members will send the party agenda by email to these GOP and regressive contributors.
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The Black Panther Party was a progressive political organization that stood in the vanguard of the most powerful movement for social change in America since the Revolution of 1776 and the Civil War: that dynamic episode generally referred to as The Sixties.
It is the sole fl organization in the entire history of fl struggle against slavery and oppression in the United States that was armed and promoted a revolutionary agenda, and it represents the last great thrust by the mass of fl people for equality, justice and freedom.
The Black Panther Party was the manifestation of the vision of Huey P. Newton, the seventh son of a Louisiana family transplanted to Oakland, California.
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 Progressive States Network | Washington Poised to Be Second Paid Parental Leave State   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This past week, the Washington State House voted to approve five weeks of paid leave for parents with a new born or adopted child, following earlier approval of a broader Senate measure, SB 5659, that would have also included paid leave to to take care of a seriously ill parent.
State by state, we are beginning to remove that anti-family blot in our public policy.
While New York is the first state to introduce new legislation, several attorney generals have begun investigating the relationship between lenders and colleges, including the attorney generals of California, Illinois, Ohio, Connecticut and Minnesota.
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