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Copperheads
Copperheads in the American Civil War, a reproachful term for those Northerners sympathetic to the South, mostly Democrats outspoken in their opposition to the Lincoln administration. They were especially strong in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, where Clement L. Vallandigham was their leader. The ... Read more |
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Constituent Assembly
CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY The All-Russian Constituent Assembly, which opened and closed on January 5, 1918, was elected to draft a constitution for the new Russian state. Prior to 1917, most oppositionist parties agreed that a democratically elected assembly should determine Russia's political future.... Read more |
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Edmund Sixtus Muskie
Edmund Sixtus Muskie 1914-96, U.S. Senator (1959-80), b. Rumford, Maine. A lawyer, he sat (1947-51) in the Maine legislature after serving in the navy in World War II. He later became (1955) Maine's first Democratic governor in 20 years and (1958) its first popularly elected U.S. Senator. He was... Read more |
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Amintore Fanfani
Amintore Fanfani , 1908-99, Italian political leader, a Christian Democrat. A noted scholar, he held several cabinet posts after World War II and was secretary of the Christian Democratic party from 1954 to 1959. He was premier in 1954, 1958-59, 1960-63 (twice), 1982-83, and 1987; in 1962 he... Read more |
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convention
convention in U.S. politics, a gathering of delegates to nominate candidates for elective office and to formulate party policy. They are held at the national, state, and local levels. Organization and Characteristic Features The organization of a national convention is the responsibility of the... Read more |
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Liberal Democrats
Liberal Democrats British political party created in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal party with the Social Democratic party ; the party was initially called the Social and Liberal Democratic party. The Social Democratic party, which was formed in 1981 by politically centrist members of the ... Read more |
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August Bebel
August Bebel , 1840-1913, German Socialist leader. A wood turner by trade, he became a Marxian Socialist under the influence of Wilhelm Liebknecht . At a congress at Eisenach (1869) he was instrumental in founding the German Social Democratic party, which he later represented in the Reichstag and... Read more |
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John Edward Broadbent
John Edward Broadbent 1936-, Canadian political leader. After studying at the Univ. of Toronto (Ph.D., 1966) and the London School of Economics, he taught political science at York Univ. In 1968 he was elected to the House of Commons as a New Democratic party member. He was elected leader of his... Read more |
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Sherman Silver Purchase Act
SHERMAN SILVER PURCHASE ACT SHERMAN SILVER PURCHASE ACT. In the late nineteenth century, years of falling prices and economic contraction gave rise to a strongly prosilver wing of the Democratic Party. These "silver Democrats" advocated the notion that the free coinage of silver would combat... Read more |
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Many hail events in the Middle East as a bright new dawn. But revolutions...
...downfall, this year's tumultuous...Indeed, in all the excitement...many of the idealists exulting in...course, not all revolutions...is that not all uprisings...This is not, after all, the first...uprising ... |
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The Stiletto Idealist.(Review)
...not yet forty year-old head of...Hazony is an idealist, and proud...Revisionist Zionism after him took anything...increasingly manifest. These ideas, or anti...we to make of all this? There...Magnes on down. Still, the ... |
 "New Statesman (1996)")
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Sex, politics and idealists
...because they are idealists who want to make...series, could these young men and...work began four years ago, it was...in the series after bumping into...photocopiers. Yet all these were trumped...more intriguing ... |
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Call me an idealist, but I want to serve forever.(Column)
...I doubt these curious souls...must admit that after the seventh...implication is that a year (or more...me a foolish idealist. Say that I...what I think after a few months...s reality at all, it's merely...throughout the ... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Skirmishes as leaders meet to plot future of Europe REFORM: Idealists and...
...join within two years, and more in...be higher, after referendum rebuffs...chairman, the 76-year-old former...for that." All of which leads...praesidium. These include Mr Giscard...to have votes after debates ... |
 "The Charleston Gazette (Charleston, WV)")
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Korean veteran recounts war brutalities in book: ; Scott Depot author went...
...story of 71-year-old Scott...ve lived are still with me...from patriotic idealist to disillusioned...Korea comes after Americans have...North Korea. After a day of heavy...investigated. After the swimming...approach. ... |
 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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Jack Straw's Chilean love affair; As the Pinochet decision looms; how the...
...lawyers explore all other avenues...democracy. But behind these political considerations...thrown out once after it was revealed...time, the 19-year-old Straw talked...was a liaison still talked about in...Straw. And, 33 ... |
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Idealists once, these artists took different paths.(FEATURES)(ARTS)
...relationships. Few still speak to one another...Padilla died seven years after the exhibition...is in Belgium. All continue to work...Monzon, who stopped after becoming disillusioned...Cuba is, after all, ... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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An idealist's take on Harvard Law School
...Every few years, it seems...harrowing first year at Harvard...presence of these two widely...experience. For all the travails...the first year of law school...final two years, a seemingly...of second year, ... |
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The Campus Idealist
...Girls songs. For all these reasons, we are...of dollars per year flow to different...that breeding was all they were good...minorities are still fighting to be...in the last 30 years, we have come...trying. This ... |
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