Republicanism

Examples of Republicanism in the following topics:

• The Rise of the Republican Party

  • The Republican Party was formed out of a loose coalition of Northern ex-Whigs who resented Southern political power.
  • Republicans were opposed to the perceived "anti-modernity" of the Southern slave culture and rallied behind the slogan of “Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men”, which they argued was representative of classical American republicanism.
  • This ideology cast the Republicans as the true heirs of the Jeffersonians.
  • However, it is important to note that mainstream Republicans were not inherently anti-slavery or abolitionist.
  • Explain why the Republican Party emerged after the collapse of the Whig Party.

• The Clinton Administration Moves Right

  • Prior to this, Republicans had not held the majority of governorships since 1972.
  • Republican George Allen won the Virginia governorship.
  • Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison took a senate seat from the Democrats in Texas.
  • The 1994 elections also ushered in a great number of Republican freshmen.
  • In the Senate, 11 of 54 (20%) Republicans were freshmen.

• The Republican Alternative

  • The Democratic-Republican Party, was an American political party founded around 1791 by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
  • The Republican Party, usually called the Democratic-Republican Party, was an American political party founded about 1791 by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
  • In 1801, the Democrat-Republicans came to power with Jefferson's election to president.
  • Despite the fact that Britain was America's leading trading partner, Republicans feared that trade alliances with Britain would undermine the American republican project.
  • Federalists spread rumors that the Republicans were radicals who would ruin the country, while the Republicans accused Federalists of destroying republican values by favoring aristocratic, anti-republican principles.

• Reform and the Election of 1872

  • Grant had supported a patronage system that allowed Republicans to infiltrate and control state governments.
  • The Liberal Republicans thought that the Grant Administration, and the president personally, were fully corrupt.
  • With these goals achieved, the tenets of republicanism demanded that federal military troops be removed from the South, where they were propping up allegedly corrupt Republican regimes.
  • The Liberal Republicans successfully ran B.G.
  • Grant also favored amnesty to former Confederate soldiers like the Liberal Republicans.

• The "Reign of Witches"

  • The "Reign of Witches" was a descriptive catchphrase used by Democratic-Republicans to criticize the Federalist Alien and Sedition Acts.
  • "The Reign of Witches" is a termed used by Democrat-Republicans to describe the Federalist party and John Adams after the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
  • Hence, Jefferson, Madison, and other Democratic-Republicans combatted the Alien and Sedtion acts by mobilizing widespread party support during the1800 election campagin and defending those persecuted under the legislation.
  • They were signed into law by President John Adams and were intended as a direct political attack on the Democrat-Republicans.
  • The Federalist-dominated Congress believed that Democrat-Republicans, fueled by the French and French-sympathizing immigrants, posed a subversive threat to the United States.

• The Republican Victory

  • The election of 1800 marked a peaceful transition of power from Federalists to Democratic-Republicans.
  • Federalists spread rumors that the Republicans were radicals who would ruin the country (based on the Republican support for the French Revolution).
  • Meanwhile, the Republicans accused Federalists of destroying republican values by favoring aristocratic, anti-republican principles.
  • While Democratic-Republicans were firmly aligned behind Jefferson and Burr, the Federalists began to fracture.
  • However the Republicans neglected to have one of their electors abstain from voting for Burr, which created a tie.

• American Republicanism

  • American republicanism is a political ideology that sees government as the pursuit of common good by a virtuous, participating citizenry.
  • Republicanism required the service of those who were willing to give up their own interests for a common good.
  • English country party drew heavily on the classical republican language of ancient Rome: celebrating the ideals of duty and virtuous male citizenship as the basis of effective republicanism.
  • The "Founding Fathers" were strong advocates of republican values who were involved in the shaping of the American political system.
  • For example, during Washington's two terms as president, Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans clashed over numerous domestic matters and, in this conflict, drew on conflicting visions of classical republicanism to advocate for two distinct socio-economic visions of American society.

• Republican Motherhood

  • It centered on the belief that the patriots' daughters should be raised to uphold the ideals of republicanism in order to pass on republican values to the next generation.
  • "Republican Motherhood" describes a kind of civic duty.
  • Many Christian ministers actively promoted the ideals of Republican Motherhood.
  • The period of Republican Motherhood is hard to categorize in the history of feminism.
  • Republican Motherhood required a woman to make an important contribution to the republic by training her children (particularly her daughters) to uphold republican values and pass them on to the next generation.

• Reform and Scandal: The Campaign of 1884

  • The so-called Mugwumps, reformist Republicans, left the Republican party in anger at Blaine's nomination in the 1884 presidential election.
  • The Republican Party nominated James G.
  • Many influential Republicans were outraged.
  • These Republicans, called mugwumps, withdrew from the convention and declared that they would vote for the Democratic candidate if he were an honest man.
  • New England and the Northeastern United States had been a stronghold of the Republican Party since the Civil War era, but the Mugwumps considered Blaine to be an untrustworthy and fraudulent candidate.

• The Radical Record

  • The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from about 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877.
  • They called themselves "Radicals" and were opposed during the War by the Moderate Republicans (led by Abraham Lincoln), by the conservative Republicans, and the largely pro-slavery and later anti-Reconstruction Democratic Party.
  • By 1866 the Radical Republicans supported federal civil rights for Freedmen, which Johnson opposed.
  • Radical Republicans in Congress disagreed.
  • However, the Republicans in Congress overrode his veto.