The discussion going on now is not new; it has been discussed and adopted by both parties off and on for over a hundred years. Read the related site information. Historically, the founders came from places where people could not own guns and so could not defend themselves. Being able to do so was an important concept to them.
He was actually a candidate for the then newly formed Republican party.
to combat slavery and preserve the Union
The modern Democratic Party in the US originated with the Republican Party: now referred to as the Democratic-Republican Party (1791-1825). The Democratic Party was founded in 1828. After the original Democratic-Republican Party split in 1825, those who opposed Democratic president Andrew Jackson formed the Whig Party in 1833.
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The history is not perfectly clear, but the link below provides the official explanation by the Republican Party.
Because the South blamed the Civil War & Reconstruction on the Republican Party, the South was dominated by the Democrat Party for decades.
False.
If you're talking about the political party, they didn't come about until after 1776; and they were called the Republican-Democratic party.
The 12th Amendment has the president and vice president run together, where in the past, of the two people running for president, the winner became president and the loser became the vice. Now, because of the 12th amendment, the president and vice president can come from the same party.
In a way it did. The dissolution of the Whigs created a political vacuum that enabled the new Republican Party to gain power. It essentially comprised many of the same (or similar) people that had once belonged to the Whig Party. The Republican party was formed by former Whigs, by abolitionists, free-soilers, frontiersmen, farmers from the middle west, businessmen, common workers, industrialists, merchants from the eastern States and New England. The Republican Party formed around 1854; Abraham Lincoln became their first elected President in 1860.
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On November 7, 1874, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about criticisms of President Grant, an image which includes the first important use of the Republican Elephant.