what led to the formation of the republician party in the 1850's?
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from the link below:\n\nIt was established in 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 nation.
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The legislative department was composed of a Senate of from nineteen to thirty-three members and a House of Representatives of from forty-five to ninety. Representatives, elected for two years, were required to have attained the age of twenty-one. Senators were elected for four years, one-half chosen biennially, all at least thirty years old. Legislators' compensation was set at three dollars a day for each day of attendance and three dollars for each twenty-five miles of travel to and from the capital. All bills for raising revenue had to originate in the House of Representatives. Austin was made the capital until 1850, after which the people were to choose a permanent seat of government. A census was ordered for each eighth year, following which adjustment of the legislative membership was to be made. Regular sessions were biennial. Ministers of the Gospel were ineligible to be legislators. \n\nThe governor's term was two years, and he was made ineligible for more than four years in any period of six years. He was required to be a citizen and a resident of Texas for at least three years before his election and to be at least thirty years of age. He could appoint the attorney general, secretary of state, and supreme and district court judges, subject to confirmation by the Senate; but the comptroller and treasurer were elected biennially by a joint session of the legislature. The governor could convene the legislature and adjourn it in case of disagreement between the two houses and was commander-in-chief of the militia. He could grant pardons and reprieves. His veto could be overruled by two-thirds of both houses. \n\nThe judiciary consisted of a Supreme Court, district courts, and such inferior courts as the legislature might establish, the judges of the higher courts being appointed by the governor for six-year terms. The Supreme Court was made up of three judges, any two of whom constituted a quorum. Supreme and district judges could be removed by the governor on address of two-thirds of both houses of the legislature for any cause that was not sufficient ground for impeachment. A district attorney for each district was elected by joint vote of both houses, to serve for two years. County officers were elected for two years by popular vote. The sheriff was not eligible to serve more than four years of any six. Trial by jury was extended to cases in equity as well as in civil and criminal law. \n\nThe longest article of the constitution was Article VII, on General Provisions. Most of its thirty-seven sections were limitations on the legislature. One section forbade the holding of office by any citizen who had ever participated in a duel. Bank corporations were prohibited, and the legislature was forbidden to authorize individuals to issue bills, checks, promissory notes, or other paper to circulate as money. The state debt was limited to $100,000, except in case of war, insurrection, or invasion. Equal and uniform taxation was required; income and occupation taxes might be levied; each family was to be allowed an exemption of $250 on household goods. A noteworthy section made exempt from forced sale any family homestead, not to exceed 200 acres of land or city property not exceeding $2,000 in value; the owner, if a married man, could not sell or trade the homestead except with the consent of his wife. Section XIX recognized the separate ownership by married women of all real and personal property owned before marriage or acquired afterwards by gift or inheritance. Texas was a pioneer state in providing for homestead protection and for recognition of community property.
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The Republican party is known as the GOP. According to the Oxford English Dictionary the first known reference to the Republican party as the "grand old party" came in 1876. The first use of the abbreviation G.O.P. is dated 1884
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The domocratic party \n\nHowever he was part of the democratic party before it changed to the socialist party.
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Roman Republic ruled during 120 BC. This republican period began with the overthrow of the Monarchy (at the time the monarch was Lucius Tarquinius Superbus) in 510 BC and lasted until its subversion, through a series of civil wars, into the Principate form of government. The precise date in which the Roman Republic changed into the Roman Empire is disputed, with the dates of Julius Caesar's appointment as perpetual dictator (44 BC); thus starting the age of emperors (Augustus, etc.)
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the early 19th century
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The Democratic Party was, in the early days of the United States, the party of States Rights (as opposed to the Federalist Party, which championed the power of the federal government over the states.) Over the years, the Federalists fell apart and were replaced by the Whigs, then the Jacksonian Democrats. The Republican Party arose in New England as a fairly elitist party. But with the issue of slavery, many northern Democrats left the Democratic Party and joined the Republicans. But states rights were the dominant issue of the Civil War for the South, and the Democratic Party held to it throughout the war.\n\nAfter the war, many Democrats who had joined the Repubicans on the issue of slavery returned to the Democratic party, but there were major differences between the Northern and Southern Democrats that kept them weak for decades.\n\nIt wasn't until 1910 that the Democrats won the White House again. During that time, the Republican Party had become the party of business, elitism, the Industrial Revolution, railroads, and destroying the Native American tribes. The Democrats became the party of liberalism, land reform, tax equity, and anti-trust legislation. They went, in essence from the party of States' Rights to the party of People's Rights. But they fell apart again after WWI on issues of prohibition (north was against it, south was for it), women's sufferage (same) and debate over the Versailles treaty.\n\nStill, many southern Democrats were fairly conservative on social issues. The old states' rights concepts were still very much alive in the South. Any many southerners remained loyal to the Democrats simply because they were NOT the party of Abe Lincoln, whom they despised.\n\nBut while the Southern Democrats were licking their wounds, the Northern Democrats really took control of the party and established its modern identity. That identity is best seen through the actions of two of its leaders, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt.
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The Tory Party and the Whig Party are two political parties. I believe the Tories tried to meet the needs of the upper class, while the Whigs tried to meet the needs of the lower class. In the American colonies, the Tories were Loyalists and the Whigs were Patriots.
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Initially people took sides in support or against the constitution.  In the first elections, there were no formal parties.  Jeffersons Democratic party arose in the 1790s from opposition to the policies of the ruling Federalist supporters dominated by Alexander Hamilton, which advocated a strong central government, a loose interpretation of the Constitution, and a republic governed by elites.  By 1800 parties were formally organized.
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It was the federalists at first because they supported a strong central government.  Even George Washington had federalist views.  The anti-federalists, later known as the first republican party(not associated with GOP) gave oppostion because they said federalists were too much like the British.  They weren't a party until later on though.  They both gave great value I believe.  To me they both did good for our country because they both wanted sovereignty and to be independent but just thought of different ways to have it.
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Here goes!!!\nThe state was admitted to the Union on February 14, 1859.
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Republic is government by the people.In which people are the source of power who have direct say in the governmemtal matters means govt by the n through the people.
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An elephant''\n\nThis symbol of the party was born in the imagination of cartoonist Thomas Nast and first appeared in Harper's Weekly on November 7, 1874.\n\nAn 1860 issue of Railsplitter and an 1872 cartoon in Harper's Weekly connected elephants with Republicans, but it was Nast who provided the party with its symbol.\n\nOddly, two unconnected events led to the birth of the Republican Elephant. James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald raised the cry of "Caesarism" in connection with the possibility of a thirdterm try for President Ulysses S. Grant. The issue was taken up by the Democratic politicians in 1874, halfway through Grant's second term and just before the midterm elections, and helped disaffect Republican voters.\n\nWhile the illustrated journals were depicting Grant wearing a crown, the Herald involved itself in another circulation-builder in an entirely different, nonpolitical area. This was the Central Park Menagerie Scare of 1874, a delightful hoax perpetrated by the Herald. They ran a story, totally untrue, that the animals in the zoo had broken loose and were roaming the wilds of New York's Central Park in search of prey.\n\nCartoonist Thomas Nast took the two examples of the Herald enterprise and put them together in a cartoon for Harper's Weekly. He showed an ass (symbolizing the Herald) wearing a lion's skin (the scary prospect of Caesarism) frightening away the animals in the forest (Central Park). The caption quoted a familiar fable: "An ass having put on a lion's skin roamed about in the forest and amused himself by frightening all the foolish animals he met within his wanderings."\n\nOne of the foolish animals in the cartoon was an elephant, representing the Republican vote - not the party, the Republican vote - which was being frightened away from its normal ties by the phony scare of Caesarism. In a subsequent cartoon on November 21, 1874, after the election in which the Republicans did badly, Nast followed up the idea by showing the elephant in a trap, illustrating the way the Republican vote had been decoyed from its normal allegiance. Other cartoonists picked up the symbol, and the elephant soon ceased to be the vote and became the party itself: the jackass, now referred to as the donkey, made a natural transition from representing the Herald to representing the Democratic party that had frightened the elephant.\n\nby William Safire
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That was the popular name for several mostly rural populist parties in the 1870's (U.S.) who promoted the issuance of paper money not redeemable in gold or silver, as a means of increasing farmers' liquidity.  They also advocated women's suffrage and elected several state legislators and I believe some Congressmen.
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Andrew Jackson was the first elected by the party that identified itself as "Democrats"\n\nThe Democratic party CLAIMS that it was Thomas Jefferson, but that's not quite true.\n\nJefferson's party was nearly always called "Republicans" (though some of the groups that supported them were called "Democratic Republican clubs").   After his election the Federalist party began to fall apart, until by Monroe's Presidency there was only ONE party.  \n\nThis one party began to splinder into two groups in the 1820s, one group associated more with John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, the other with Andrew Jackson.\n\nIt was Jackson's supporters who began the 'convention' system and formed the Democratic party that continues to this day.   Those who disagreed with him called themselves "Whigs" (after the British party that opposed the Tories -- the Whigs compared "King Andy" to the British monarchs).\n\nEventually the Whig party collapsed over the slavery question.  It's southern wing joined the Democrats, but most Northern Whigs along with 'free soil' and abolitionist Democrats in the North quickly replaced them as the Repubican party (first stood a candidate for President in 1856, then won win Lincoln in 1860).\n\nNote that the Republicans deliberately went back to reclaim the name Jefferson & his followers had used (now discarded by the Democrats).  They too (with some justification given this complicated history) claimed some roots in the party and beliefs of Jefferson.
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According to Article 4, Section 4 of the US Constitution, we are a republic because we said so. In truth, we ARE a federation of sorts, but governed in a form of democratic republicanism.
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Contrary to the popular belief shown in these answers it did not start in the American Congress.  It started in the assembly of France.  Those that sat on the Speakers right were loyal to the Republic and those that sat to the left were seeking to change the government.\n\nThere was no original conection to religion at the start, but there has been an intertwining of personal beleifs since then.