Article: CRITTENDEN FORGED 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 ...

Constitutional Union party.(Reference Source)
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.;  January 1, 1993 ;     428 words ... Constitutional Union party in U.S. history, formed when the conflict ...

Article: CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PARTY.(Kentucky Life)
The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY);  September 8, 2003 ;     588 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 ...

Constitutional Union party.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.;  January 1, 2000 ;     374 words ...Constitutional Union party, in U.S. history, formed when the conflict between North and South broke down the older parties. The Constitutional Union group, composed of former Whigs and remnants of the Know ...

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