He is affiliated with the Democratic Party. ... The Department of Health and Human Services is often the most far reaching of all executive departments. ... He is affiliated with the Republican Party. ... She is affiliated with Republican Party. ... She is aligned with the Democratic Party, and is elected by all members of the house to lead the minority party. ...

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This is the collective name for a group of electors, which are nominated by political parties within the states and popularly elected. ... This system maintains the two party system. ... If not they continue voting until a majority is reached and the speaker of the house become a temporary president until a majority is reached. ... And third the system for electing a president if no electoral majority is reached. ... Basically, when we vote for a president or party, we are actually voting on an elector to make a choice and not the candidate himself. ...

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Over two hundred Ohioans reached the rank of general; among them were Ulysses S. ... As a member of the Democratic party, Vallandigham was elected to Congress in 1858. ... Out of the twenty-two Ohioans who reached the rank of major general during the war, sixteen boasted a West Point education as their professional badge.# James A. ... He was considered by many members of the Republican Party as being an extreme radical with violent passions, extreme opinions and narrow views who was surrounded by the worst and most violent elements in the Republican Party. ... The issues were all confuse...

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The election reached levels of animosity that has not happened in many other elections. The Federalist Party attacked Jefferson as being an ungodly man who would bring bloody terror to the country (Parton 2006). ... Adams was ridiculed by both the Hamiltonians in his own party but also by Jefferson's party. ... This was also the beginning of the rule of Democratic-Republican rule in our country and would prove to eventually the demise of the Federalist Party. Thomas Jefferson worked to unite the country and tried to not focus on the different political parties and went on to his term of p...

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One year later, Wilson led the Paris Peace Conference at Versailles to reach an international pact that included the points. ... Wilson was unwilling to compromise on this issue, and made the situation even worse when he called on the Democratic Party to oppose Lodge's doubts and elect a Democratic president in the upcoming election to be able to ratify the treaty. ... The American disgrace held Wilson's foolish stubbornness and inability to compromise with the Republican Party accountable. ...

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For most of the 20th century, only one political party, the government- controlled Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), played an influential role in politics or in the decision-making process. After it was founded in 1929, the government party monopolized most national political offices. ... It lost the presidency for the first time in 2000, when Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN) defeated the PRI candidate. ... Presidents acquire tremendous authority because they also control the selection of candidates in their party for elective office at the national level....

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Candidates for elector usually are nominated by party conventions, in primary elections, or by party organizations. ... An additional downfall of the Electoral Party system is that if a third-party or independent-party ever made a strong bid for the presidency, "it might prevent either major-party candidate from winning a majority- (Kelman, 1999). Some critics go so far as to say that the Electoral College restricts the rise of another major political party. "The feature of the Electoral College most prone to attack is the requirement that the election go into the House of Representatives to...

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(www.factmonster.com) The candidates have employees who research the demographics, such as the one cited above, to aid in the party's political platform. ... Black voters have been considered strong constituents of the Democratic Party since the New Deal era of the 1930s. ... (www.usatoday.com) The NAACP was very eager to hear these candidates and they were elated that their organization has a chance to reach globally with the aid of these presidential candidates. ... s already-large Hispanic population growing at a steady clip, "It's reached critical mass," said Antonio Gonzalez, pr...

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Jefferson also felt that it was necessary in the American society that freed slaves needed to be removed beyond the reach of "mixture" into the populace (pg. 193). ... Shay's' Rebellion a farmers' uprising named for its leader Daniel Shays, reached its climax when Shays led 1100 men in an attempt to seize the arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts. ... In a letter to Francis Hopkinson, Jefferson defends his political position by stating "if I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all" (pg. 435). Jefferson felt that because he opposed some of the Feder...

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These political choices put Johnson in the states' rights and of the Democratic Party. ... Johnson's decision to support the return of the pre-war social and economic system except for slavery cut short any hope for a redistribution of land to the freed-people or a more far-reaching reform program in the South. ... These political choices put Johnson in the states' rights andof the Democratic Party Most importantly, Johnson's strong commitment to obstructing political and civil rights for blacks is responsible for the failure of Reconstruction to solve the race problem ...

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Of course with each of these rules and regulations follows groups and parties on either side defending why the decision of the government was right or wrong. ... When the average middle class citizen finds an issue that they're very fervent about and don't have the means to change the current out come into their favor they make a party. These parties cause more people just like that middle class American to ban together and try to get some solid recognition in order to make a difference. ... The party also has been able to raise awareness through radio interviews, preaching their mes...

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Other changes included the improvement of railroads and canals and the formation of the Democratic Party. ... When the re-charter reached Jackson, it was quickly vetoed and sent back to congress, where a two-thirds majority failed to be reached. ... About twenty-five percent of the Indians were dead before they reached their new lands in Oklahoma. ...

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Which at the time was the Democratic Party's campaign headquarters. ... A burglary also took place on June 17, 1972 by five men who were caught in the offices of the Democratic Party's headquarters. ... President Nixon faced almost certain impeachment for his illegal acts against the Democratic Party. ... Between 1973-75 the United States supports Kurdish rebels in Iraq; in 1975 the governments of Iran and Iraq reach an agreement and seal the border, Iraq killed the Kurds and the United States denied them refuge. ... In theory, Star Wars would allow the United States to intercept ene...

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Clinton thought such a demand on Republicans to produce a budget would produce inner-party quarrels and cause the GOP to implode. ... At current rates, our government is about to reach its breaking point. ... Overall, the difference between the two parties budget plans is only $400 billion. ... The GOP plan: By fulfilling campaign promises made by freshman Republican Congressmen to cut government spending, the GOP managed to pass a $1.6 trillion budget resolution by a party-line vote, in both houses of Congress (Hosansky 1450). ... While both parties agree on premium ...

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(Gusmorino) Mellon was also generous in granting tax credits, abatements, and refunds to large corporations and individuals friendly to the Republican Party.... By 1925 with the market reaching new highs mass speculation began to take hold. ... (McElvaine44) This was a high it would not reach again until the early 1950's. ...

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He was our man in Panama, and the Arias party was considered to have dangerous elements of "ultra nationalism."" ... The press also began passionately denouncing human rights violations that previously didn't reach the threshold of their attention. ... What agreement did the Bush administration finally reach with him? ...

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A petit jury will hear evidence and decide the guilt or innocence of a party. ... A very small percentage of these cases, where parties believe mistakes in the law were made, move onto the U.S. ... More then 50,000 cases are filed annually in the federal appeals court with about 5,000 reaching the formal hearing phase (Greenberg/Page; p.424-426). ... Original jurisdiction cases involve ambassadors, diplomat, and matters in which a state is a party. ... When a majority decision is reached, a concurring opinion or a dissenting opinion may be offered. ...

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Those votes wound up giving him the 25 electoral votes he needed to reach a total of 271, one more than needed to win the general election2. ... After the networks, through the use of wire services and exit polling, became sure enough to give Kentucky and Indiana to the Governor as well, Bush enjoyed a sensible lead over his opponents, Vice President Democrat Al Gore, Green Party candidate Ralph Nader, Reform Partier and Journalist Pat Buchanan and Libertarian Harry Browne2, before the broadcasts even went to their first commercial break. ...

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The Daily Blossom also designs centerpieces, table settings and decorations for special events such as Toni Morrison's 70th birthday party and Spike Lee's wedding. ... Another lady only made $3000 after a whole year, but she still continued to reach to the top. ...

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He also reached an agreement with Japan that traded allowed U.S. presence in the Philippines. ... She gave lectures on peace, became the chairman of the Women's Peace Party, and became the president of the International Congress of Women. ...

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He was seen as a potential savior of the California Republican party, which had been torn apart by factional infighting. In 1962 he formally switched parties and campaigned for former vice-president Richard Nixon, the unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial candidate in California. ...

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Richard Nixon was a very capable and strong president who had greatness within his grasp but never reached it. ... In another ruthlessly fought campaign, Nixon managed to find a link between her voting record and that of the American-Labor-Party congressman from New York, Vito Marcantonio, who was widely regarded as pro-Communist ( ). ...

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In the Presidential Election of 1960 John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Richard Milhouse Nixon were in a series of debates that were different from past debates. The three biggest national television networks arranged for the debate to be televised on all three stations. The Democratic candidate, Sen...

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Woman suffrage is the right of women to vote. Today, women in nearly all countries have the same voting rights as men. But they did not begin to gain such rights until the early 1900's, and they had to overcome strong opposition to get them. Reading Jailed for Freedom has been like peeking into a w...

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