O/T History of the Republican Party

[Code_Breaker]

Just for those who want to know the history of the Republican Party, try this link

 

Some excerpts . . .

 

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Abolishing slavery. Free speech. Women's suffrage. In today's stereotypes, none of these sounds like a typical Republican issue, yet they are stances the Republican Party, in opposition to the Democratic Party, adopted early on.

Reducing the government. Streamlining the bureaucracy. Returning power to the states. These issues don't sound like they would be the promises of the party of Lincoln, the party that fought to preserve the national union, but they are, and logically so. With a core belief in the idea of the primacy of individuals, the Republican Party, since its inception, has been at the forefront of the fight for individuals' rights in opposition to a large, bloated government.

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The first Republican President

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With the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, the Republicans firmly established themselves as a major party capable of holding onto the White House for 60 of the next 100 years. Faced with the first shots of the Civil War barely a month after his inauguration, preserving the Union was Lincoln's greatest challenge--and no doubt his greatest achievement. But it was by no means his only accomplishment.

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Equal Rights

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Fully sensitive to the symbolism of their name, the Republicans worked to deal the death blow to slavery with Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the passage, by a Republican Congress, of the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery. Hoping to permanently turn back the Democratic advance in the South, immediately after the Civil War the Republican Congress continued to push through legislation to extend the full protection of civil rights to blacks.

During Reconstruction, the mostly Democratic South, which had seceded from both the Union and Congress, struggled to regain its footing. Meanwhile, the Republicans took advantage of their majority and passed several measures to improve the quality of life for blacks throughout the entire Union. First the Republicans passed a Civil Rights Act in 1866 recognizing blacks as U.S. citizens. This act hoped to weaken the South by denying states the power to restrict blacks from testifying in a court of law or from owning their own property.

Continuing to take advantage of their majority, Republicans proposed the 14th Amendment, which became part of the Constitution in 1868, stating: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

That same year the Republican Congress also passed the National Eight Hour Law, which, though it applied only to government workers, brought relief for overworked federal employees by limiting the work day to eight hours.

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Black's Equal Rights

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Some people have argued that Republicans fought to give blacks equal rights and then the vote as a way of wresting control of the South away from the Democrats. While it is true that almost all blacks voted Republican, these were very dangerous and controversial issues at the time. For whatever reason, many Republican politicians risked their careers on that period's "third rail" of politics and managed to not only abolish slavery, but eventually even established a black's right to vote as well. In fact, many blacks even held elected office and were influential in state legislatures. And, in 1869, the first blacks entered Congress as members of the Republican Party, establishing a trend that was not broken until 1935 when the first black Democrat finally was elected to Congress.

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Woman's Equal Rights

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Standing in sharp contrast to the two existing political parties' present stereotypes regarding minorities and women, once again the Republican Party was the vanguard in relation to women. In 1917, Jeannette Rankin, a Montana Republican, became the first woman to serve in the House. Committed to her pacifist beliefs, she was the only member of Congress to vote against entry into both World War I and World War II.

Shortly after Ms. Rankin's election to Congress, the 19th Amendment was passed in 1919. The amendment's journey to ratification had been a long and difficult one. Starting in 1896, the Republican Party became the first major party to officially favor women's suffrage. That year, Republican Sen. A. A. Sargent of California introduced a proposal in the Senate to give women the right to vote. The proposal was defeated four times in the Democratic-controlled Senate. When the Republican Party regained control of Congress, the Equal Suffrage Amendment finally passed (304-88). Only 16 Republicans opposed the amendment.

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The Republican Oath

 

 

I believe that the proper function of government is to do for the people those things that have to be done but cannot be done, or cannot be done as well by individuals, and that the most effective government is government closest to the people.

 

 

I believe that good government is based on the individual and that each person's ability, dignity, freedom and responsibility must be honored and recognized.

 

 

I believe that free enterprise and the encouragement of individual initiative and incentive have given this nation an economic system second to none.

 

 

I believe that sound money policy should be our goal.

 

 

I believe in equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity for all, regardless of race, creed, age, sex or national origin. I believe that persons with disabilities should be afforded equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity as well.

 

I believe we must retain those principles worth retaining, yet always be receptive to new ideas with an outlook broad enough to accommodate thoughtful change and varying points of view.

 

 

I believe that Americans value and should preserve their feeling of national strength and pride, and at the same time share with people everywhere a desire for peace and freedom and the extension of human rights throughout the world.

 

Finally, I believe that the Republican Party is the best vehicle for translating these ideals into positive and successful principles of government.

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[mcamininc]

Believe it or not

 

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[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Nice. Reeeeeeeeel nice. From my research in High School many of those reasons were the exact reasons I registered as a Republican. Unlike most of my peers at the time, I did my homework before I registered to vote. Many "... registered Republican/Democrat because my parents vote Republican/Democrat...".

[mold100]

In my email:

 

 

Like it or not -- THIS PICTURE IS WORTH MORE

 

THAN A THOUSAND WORDS......

 

 

 

This is a man that denounced his military service.

 

This was a man who had an alliance with the treason queen herself who was famous for befriending the enemy.

 

This is a man who was the head of the antiwar movement.

 

This is a man who not only called for, but embraced the idea of men to dodge the draft and move to Canada.

 

This is a man who called for men to turn their back on their country.

 

This is a man that is despised by the veterans of foreign wars organization.

 

This is a man who may become our president?

 

Please keep this going. We do not need this man as our President.

 

 

I am not sure where the documentation is but??????

[Quickmike]

Jackson Mi. is the birthplace of the Republican party.

[gcode]

mold100, that picture came out a couple of months ago and it's a doctored fake. Kerry and Fonda

did hang out in those days but I don't think

anyone has legitimate film of it.

I wish it were a real photo, but its not.

Don't get me wrong, I think Kerry is as phony as a 3 dollar bill, but the picture is phony too.

[mold100]

Thats kinda why I put in the last line I dont know where the documentation came from. I dont need phony reasons to not like the guy, I have enough legitimate reasons.

[gcode]

+10000 to that