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know-nothing party platform
90 documents for know-nothing party platform
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... to approach "the verge," have become the platform for yet further steps. A certain momentum develops...-told tale;[Footnote 7] the Know-Nothing Party, which included in its platform "daily Bible readi...
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Russell Pearce is no Benjamin Franklin, except they share one of our most repellent and recurring prejudices -- xenophobia, fear of foreigners. Throughout our history, Americans have been profoundly ambivalent on the subject of immigration. We get misty-eyed seeing the Statue of Liberty, or hearing about our own foreign-born ancestors, and then periodically erupt in spasms of nativist nonsense. The country is going through one of those spasms right now. Witness the measure passed in Arizona that requires law-enforcement officers to question anyone they "reasonably suspect" of being illegal. Sponsors say that would not lead to racial profiling, but their denials ring hollow. Of course it would.
... by more moderate members of his party." He's posed for pictures with neo-Nazis and circu..., the Know- Nothing Party's "anti-Papist" platform drew 25 percent of the presidential vote. Fifty ye...
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Today I'm really happy I am not from Mexico. That is not to say anything bad about Mexicans or Mexican Americans. In fact, it is nice not to be from anywhere south of the Rio Grande. There are millions of wonderful people in Latin America, but they seem to be personae non gratae in the hearts and minds of some U.S. men and women. This is not new, and the vitriolic intensity of this "unwelcome" is familiar. Immigration in our history has always been a visceral issue. It was gut-wrenching when the immigrants took over the land of the Delawares, the Cherokee, and the Seminoles. Other than Massasoit's welcome of the Pilgrims, Native American greeting was less than cordial at times. Who could blame them? Foreigners arrived on their shore wearing funny-looking costumes, they had weapons that ...
... the mid-1800s was so great that a political party was formed with the expressed platform to exclude ...
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...Association candidates, running on a platform that opposed Catholics and immigrants, with suppor...
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NEW YORK - As the most powerful man in the universe, or one of them anyway, Roger Ailes can look back on the first 15 years of his crowning achievement, Fox News Channel, with satisfaction. And he does. It was way back in February 1996 that, at the behest of News Corp. chieftain Rupert Murdoch, Ailes began creating from scratch an all-news network to challenge the venerable CNN as well as upstart MSNBC, which was set to launch that July.
... large, even a mouthpiece for the Republican Party shaping public opinion on its behalf. These critic... Fox News Radio, Fox News' digital platform, the Fox Television Stations Group and Twentieth T...
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... ballots in a primary unless a political party objects. So far, the Dems and GOP haven't objected... will need to run on an anti- Washington platform. Lewis, a Democratic fundraiser making his first p...
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..., but this happened only when neither party objected to the inquiry. (53) Many states also ado...The Republican Patty platform in 1856 attempted to tie Mormon polygamy with mast...
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... party commitments (the Democrats' platform pledge for tariff reform in Cleveland's case; the ...
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...(158) The Missouri Republican Party has adopted, as their official stance, the repeal .... (159.) 2004 Missouri Republican Party Platform, available at http://www.mogop.org/docs/2004PartyP...
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... from at least one responsible party, B.P. The focus currently is to assemble existing... inspection of all deepwater production platforms. We have placed a temporary moratorium on the issu...
