Article: CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PARTY.(Kentucky Life)

Article: Constitutional Union Party
Dictionary of American History;      458 words ...CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PARTY CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PARTY. Late in 1859, with growing dissatisfaction in the southern states over excessive protective tariffs and failures to enforce fugitive slave laws, old-line Whigs and members of the American ...

Article: CRITTENDEN FORGED CONSTITUTIONAL UNION ...
The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY);  September 8, 2003 ;     591 words ... ... step toward forming the Constitutional Union party when he called a meeting ... From these elements the Constitutional Union party, so named by William ... states supported the Constitutional Union party. On Feb. 22, 1860 ...

Dictionary definition: Constitutional Union party
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military;      297 words ...Constitutional Union party a political party organized in Baltimore in May 1860 by the Whig and Know Nothing parties. The Constitutional Union party criticized sectional politics and was supported by states in ...

Article: Constitutional Unionists: the party that tried to stop Lincoln ...
The Historian;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... the nation hung by a thread, the national Constitutional Union Party announced its formation with a clarion call ... congressmen who would form the nucleus of the Constitutional Union Party. (6) Crittenden called the Baltimore nominating ...

Article: To Secure the Blessings of Liberty: The Making of the Consitution ...
World and I;  February 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Forrest McDonald is professor of history at the University of Alabama and author of Novus Ordo Seclorum. On the eve of independence, the American people were sorely divided against themselves; but the patriots of 1776 were, at least in principle, nearly unanimous in their understanding of what

Article: Union party
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      451 words ...Union party in American history. 1 Coalition of ... Tennessee, as his running mate. The Union party was hardly more than a name; very few ... discontented with the New Deal formed the Union party at a convention in Cleveland, Ohio ...

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Ukraine General Newswire;  November 28, 2009 ;     439 words ...UKRAINE-CHRISTIAN-DEMOCRATIC-UNION-PARTY-CANDIDATE-SUPPORT Christian-Democratic Union party to support Tymoshenko at presidential ... congress of the Christian-Democratic Union party held in Kyiv on Saturday. "After an ...