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Definition: Republican Party |
Republican PartyNoun1. The younger of two major political parties in the United States; GOP stands for Grand Old Party. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Republican PartySynonym: GOP (n). (additional references) |
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The Republican Party (often GOP for Grand Old Party) is a United States political party that was organized in Ripon, Wisconsin on February 28, 1854, as a party against the expansion of slavery. It is not to be confused with the Democratic-Republican party of Thomas Jefferson. The first convention of the U.S. Republican Party was held on July 6, 1854, in Jackson, Michigan. Many of its initial policies were inspired by the defunct Whig Party. Since its inception, its chief opponent has been the United States Democratic Party.
The official symbol of the Republican Party is the elephant. Although the elephant had occasionally been associated with the party earlier, a cartoon by Thomas Nast, published in Harper's Weekly on November 7, 1874, is considered the first important use of the symbol [1].
John C. Frémont ran as the first Republican for President in 1856, using the political slogan: "Free soil, free labor, free speech, free men, Fremont."
The party of Lincoln was originally characterized by its opposition to the expansion of slavery. During the Reconstruction era, the Republicans benefitted from the Democrats' association with the Confederacy and dominated national politics virtually without opposition for several years. With the two-term presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, the party became known for its strong advocacy of commerce, industry, and veterans' rights, which continued through the end of the 19th century.
The assassination of William McKinley and subsequent ascendance of Theodore Roosevelt led to a brief dominance of Progressivism for the party. However, that gave way to the laissez faire economic policies of the 1920s with Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. Following Hoover's sound defeat by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932, the Republican Party was driven into the opposition for two decades. The Republicans finally regained the presidency in 1952 with the election of the former Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower.
The party was still split between a conservative wing (dominant in the western U.S.) and a liberal wing (dominant in the northeastern U.S.). The seeds of conservative dominance in the Republican party were planted in the nomination of Barry Goldwater over Nelson Rockefeller as the Republican candidate for the 1964 presidential election. Goldwater represented the conservative wing of the party, while Rockefeller represented the liberal wing.
The party's current position as firmly to the right of the Democrats was cemented by the "Southern strategy" employed by Richard Nixon in the 1968 presidential election, followed by the Goldwater-inspired candidacy and election of Ronald Reagan in the 1980 election. Today, "conservative" and "Republican" are practically synonymous.
In 1994, Georgia Representative Newt Gingrich led the Republican Party in taking control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections on November 8. That was the first time in 40 years that the Republicans secured control of both houses of Congress.
After the 1994 sweep of Congress by the Republicans, the GOP began to engage in supporting major reforms of government with measures such as a balanced budget amendment and welfare reform. These measures and others formed the famous, "Contract with America" which was passed by Congress, but with a Democrat, Bill Clinton, as President, only certain provisions such as welfare reform were enacted after bitter fighting.
With the election of George W. Bush in 2000, the Republican party controlled both the presidency and both houses of Congress for the first time since 1952. The party solidified its Congressional margins in the 2002 midterm elections, bucking the historic trend. It marked just the third time since the Civil War that the party in control of the White House gained seats in both houses of Congress in a midterm election (others were 1902 and 1934).
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "United States Republican Party."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Government | Party; Democratic Party, Republican Party, Socialist Party, Communist Party; Federalist Party, Bull Moose Party, Abolitionist Party; Christian Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party; National Socialist Worker's Party, Nazi Party; Liberal Party, Labor Party, Conservative Party. |
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Crosswords: Republican Party |
| English words defined with "Republican Party": elephant ♦ Girondist ♦ Mugwump ♦ Red Republican, republican ♦ Sans-culotte. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Republican Party": Mary Anne Associations ♦ ROOSEVELT ♦ Young Italy. (references) |
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Screenplays | No children have ever meddled with the Republican Party and lived to tell about it. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The Republican Party going to the right House.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The real victim is the Republican Party.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Campaign badge(?) of Republican party, to be worn to the polls, showing Theodore Roosevelt on horseback, carrying U.S. flag, with banner "stalwart Republicanism to the front"; and head-and-shoulders portrait of John Weaver, candidate for mayor of Philadel.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Historical Lafayette Hall, birth place of Republican Party.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The national platform of the Republican Party and its candidate for president U.S. Grant.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Democratic Republican Party convention, 1967 February 2 at the Changch'ung gymnasium to select the presidential candidate : we have to select party Chairman Mr. Park Chung Hee.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | For your prosperity, the only party is the Democratic Republican Party.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Get it on! : join the Republican Party!.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Let us move toward prosperity supported by the Korean people : Democratic Republican Party special convention, August 30, 1969.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Frederick Douglass | I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety. |
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Civil Liberties | Czech Republic | During the year, the far-right Republican Party (SPR-RSC) continued its strategy of filing criminal complaints against government entities and NGO's that have challenged its racist and anti-Semitic policies. (references) |
Czech Republic | In September the Republican Party filed a similar criminal complaint against the League of Ethnic Minorities over a series of public service announcements using humor to discredit far-right and neo-Nazi supporters. (references) | |
Economic History | Iran | The Islamic Republican Party (IRP) was Iran's dominant political party until its dissolution in 1987; Iran now has no functioning political parties. (references) |
Political Economy | Zambia | Also notable in party politics are the Republican Party (RP) which was created by a founding member and former cabinet minister of the MMD who was expelled in 2000, and the Heritage Party, which was founded by a former MMD Vice President who was also expelled from the MMD in 2001 in regard to anti-third term activities. (references) |
Political Rights | Armenia | The majority in Parliament is made up of a coalition called Unity, which includes the two parties that gained the most votes in the May 1999 Parliamentary elections: the Republican Party and the Peoples' Party. (references) |
Czech Republic | In December 2000, the Interior Ministry publicly announced that it was conducting an investigation into the constitution of the far right Patriotic Republican Party to determine if the party should be deregistered, and the police and security services monitored the party's activities. (references) | |
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House Minority Whip David Bonior | That's not personal. It's taking on the Republican Party and their policies. And, you know, Bush and Cheney are oil folks and, I mean, I think that's a fair thing to go after. |
John McCain | I see things in today's Republican Party that dismays me. But that doesn't mean that our principles are wrong. It means that the party, I think, needs to make some adjustments. |
Mark Shields | Intense Republican tactic is blowing, basically, from the Democrat success in demonizing and villainizing Newt Gingrich, the speaker of the House, making him the face of the Republican Party. |
Representative John Kasich | Well, I don't know, Bob. But as I told a Bush adviser yesterday, if the Republican Party is not capable of selling tax cuts, then we've got to take another look at the Republican Party. We can do it. |
Robert Novak | Mr. Vice President, I'd like to turn to the domestic arena. One of the real problems, I think, for the county and for the Republican Party and for the administration has been this issue of corporate corruption. |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I have received the most generous cooperation from the leaders of the Republican Party in the Congress of the United States, Senator Dirksen and Congressman Gerald Ford, the Minority Leader. |
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Ending with "Republican Party": Democratic-Republican Party. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
republican party | 480 |
california republican party | 54 |
history of the republican party | 35 |
republican party platform | 24 |
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| Language | Translations for "Republican Party"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 共'黨 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 共'党 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きょうわとう. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | epublicanray artypay республиканская партия. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-i-l-n-p-p-r-r-t-u-y" | |
-4 letters: appreciably, intercalary. | |
-5 letters: aberrantly, apparently, biparental, capitulary, paniculate, particular, prenuptial, pruriently, republican, retinacula, trabecular, unliterary. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 70 75 62 6C 69 63 61 6E 50 61 72 74 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110000 01110101 01100010 01101100 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01010000 01100001 01110010 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e p u b l i c a n   P a r t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0070 0075 0062 006C 0069 0063 0061 006E 0050 0061 0072 0074 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5271828768787569678025067848691 |
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