Music To Talk About REPUBLICANS To (music to talk about politics to)

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Romans 13:1-7 "GOP" redirects here. For other uses, see GOP (disambiguation). Not to be confused with American Republican Party, Democratic-Republican Party, or National Republican Party. Republican Party Logo of the Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus (WI) House leader John Boehner (Speaker) (OH) Senate leader Mitch McConnell (Majority Leader) (KY) Chair of Governors Association Bill Haslam (TN) Founded March 20, 1854 Preceded by Whig Party Free Soil Party Headquarters 310 First Street SE Washington, D.C. 20003 Student wing College Republicans Youth wing Young Republicans Teen Age Republicans Membership (2012) 30.7 million[1] Ideology Conservatism[2] Economic liberalism[3] Fiscal conservatism[4] Social conservatism[5] International affiliation International Democrat Union European affiliation Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists[6] (regional partner) Regional affiliation Asia Pacific Democrat Union[7] Colors Red Seats in the Senate 54 / 100 Seats in the House 246 / 435 Governorships 31 / 50 State Upper Chamber Seats 1,134 / 1,972 State Lower Chamber Seats 3,044 / 5,411 Website www.gop.com Politics of United States Political parties Elections The Republican Party, commonly referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery activists and members of the Whig Party in 1854, the Republicans dominated politics nationally and in most of the northern U.S. for most of the period between 1860 and 1932. There have been 18 Republican U.S. presidents, the first being Abraham Lincoln, who served from 1861 until his assassination in 1865, and the most recent being George W. Bush, who served two full four-year terms from 2001 to 2009. The most recent Republican presidential nominee was former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney who lost in 2012. The party's platform is generally based on American conservatism,[8][9][10] in contrast to the contemporary American liberalism of the rival Democratic Party. The Republican Party's conservatism involves supporting free market capitalism, limited government, strong national defense, opposing regulation and labor unions, and supporting socially conservative policies.[2] The party is generally split on the issue of how to deal with illegal immigration.[11] In the 114th U.S. Congress, the Republicans have their largest majority in the U.S. House of Representatives since the 1928 election; Republicans also hold a majority of seats in the Senate.[12] The party also holds a majority of governorships and state legislatures.[13] Specifically, 68 out of 98 partisan state legislative chambers have Republican majorities.[14][15] Founded in the Northern states in 1854 by anti-slavery activists, modernizers, ex-Whigs, and ex-Free Soilers, the Republican Party quickly became the principal opposition to the dominant Democratic Party and the briefly popular Know Nothing Party. The main cause was opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise by which slavery was kept out of Kansas. The Northern Republicans saw the expansion of slavery as a great evil. The first public meeting where the name "Republican" was suggested for a new anti-slavery party was held on March 20, 1854 in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin.[16] The name was partly chosen to pay homage to Thomas Jefferson's Republican Party. The first official party convention was held on July 6, 1854, in Jackson, Michigan.[17] 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. It oversaw the preserving of the union, the end of slavery, and the provision of equal rights to all men in the American Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861–1877.[18] The Republicans' initial base was in the Northeast and the upper Midwest. With the realignment of parties and voters in the Third Party System, the strong run of John C. Fremont in the 1856 Presidential election demonstrated it dominated most northern states. Early Republican ideology was reflected in the 1856 slogan "free labor, free land, free men", which had been coined by Salmon P. Chase, a Senator from Ohio (and future Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice of the United States).[19] "Free labor" referred to the Republican opposition to slave labor and belief in independent artisans and businessmen. "Free land" referred to Republican opposition to plantation system whereby slaveowners could buy up all the good farm land, leaving the yeoman independent farmers the leftovers. The Party strived to contain the expansion of slavery, which would cause the collapse of the slave power and the expansion of freedom.[20]

Music To Talk About REPUBLICANS To (music to talk about politics to)

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Romans 13:1-7 "GOP" redirects here. For other uses, see GOP (disambiguation). Not to be confused with American Republican Party, Democratic-Republican Party, or National Republican Party. Republican Party Logo of the Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus (WI) House leader John Boehner (Speaker) (OH) Senate leader Mitch McConnell (Majority Leader) (KY) Chair of Governors Association Bill Haslam (TN) Founded March 20, 1854 Preceded by Whig Party Free Soil Party Headquarters 310 First Street SE Washington, D.C. 20003 Student wing College Republicans Youth wing Young Republicans Teen Age Republicans Membership (2012) 30.7 million[1] Ideology Conservatism[2] Economic liberalism[3] Fiscal conservatism[4] Social conservatism[5] International affiliation International Democrat Union European affiliation Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists[6] (regional partner) Regional affiliation Asia Pacific Democrat Union[7] Colors Red Seats in the Senate 54 / 100 Seats in the House 246 / 435 Governorships 31 / 50 State Upper Chamber Seats 1,134 / 1,972 State Lower Chamber Seats 3,044 / 5,411 Website www.gop.com Politics of United States Political parties Elections The Republican Party, commonly referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery activists and members of the Whig Party in 1854, the Republicans dominated politics nationally and in most of the northern U.S. for most of the period between 1860 and 1932. There have been 18 Republican U.S. presidents, the first being Abraham Lincoln, who served from 1861 until his assassination in 1865, and the most recent being George W. Bush, who served two full four-year terms from 2001 to 2009. The most recent Republican presidential nominee was former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney who lost in 2012. The party's platform is generally based on American conservatism,[8][9][10] in contrast to the contemporary American liberalism of the rival Democratic Party. The Republican Party's conservatism involves supporting free market capitalism, limited government, strong national defense, opposing regulation and labor unions, and supporting socially conservative policies.[2] The party is generally split on the issue of how to deal with illegal immigration.[11] In the 114th U.S. Congress, the Republicans have their largest majority in the U.S. House of Representatives since the 1928 election; Republicans also hold a majority of seats in the Senate.[12] The party also holds a majority of governorships and state legislatures.[13] Specifically, 68 out of 98 partisan state legislative chambers have Republican majorities.[14][15] Founded in the Northern states in 1854 by anti-slavery activists, modernizers, ex-Whigs, and ex-Free Soilers, the Republican Party quickly became the principal opposition to the dominant Democratic Party and the briefly popular Know Nothing Party. The main cause was opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise by which slavery was kept out of Kansas. The Northern Republicans saw the expansion of slavery as a great evil. The first public meeting where the name "Republican" was suggested for a new anti-slavery party was held on March 20, 1854 in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin.[16] The name was partly chosen to pay homage to Thomas Jefferson's Republican Party. The first official party convention was held on July 6, 1854, in Jackson, Michigan.[17] 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. It oversaw the preserving of the union, the end of slavery, and the provision of equal rights to all men in the American Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861–1877.[18] The Republicans' initial base was in the Northeast and the upper Midwest. With the realignment of parties and voters in the Third Party System, the strong run of John C. Fremont in the 1856 Presidential election demonstrated it dominated most northern states. Early Republican ideology was reflected in the 1856 slogan "free labor, free land, free men", which had been coined by Salmon P. Chase, a Senator from Ohio (and future Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice of the United States).[19] "Free labor" referred to the Republican opposition to slave labor and belief in independent artisans and businessmen. "Free land" referred to Republican opposition to plantation system whereby slaveowners could buy up all the good farm land, leaving the yeoman independent farmers the leftovers. The Party strived to contain the expansion of slavery, which would cause the collapse of the slave power and the expansion of freedom.[20]