LIBERTY PARTY

in U.S. history, an antislavery political organization founded in 1840. It was formed by those abolitionists, under the leadership of James G. Birney and Gerrit Smith, who repudiated William Lloyd Garrison's nonpolitical stand. Birney, their presidential candidate in 1840, received a little more than 7,000 votes. Because of better local organization and the issue of the annexation of Texas, he polled more than 60,000 votes in 1844, drawing enough support away from Henry Clay in New York state to throw the presidency to James K. Polk. The party remained strong in local elections in 1846, but in 1848 it withdrew its nominee, John P. Hale, and united with antislavery Whigs and Democrats to form the stronger Free-Soil party.

See T. C. Smith, The Liberty and Free Soil Parties in the Northwest (1897, repr. 1967).

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books on: Liberty Party  - 14070 results

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1.
Cold War Political Justice: The Smith Act, the Communist Party, and American Civil Liberties
Book by Michal R. Belknap; Greenwood Press, 1977
Subjects: Communism--United States, Communist Trials--United States, Trials (Political Crimes And Offenses)--United States
...American people. The Communist Party, although enduring legal harassment...were thinking much about civil liberties. Alien influences appeared...democratic values. The Communist Party would be the principal victim...nation had sacrificed a slice of liberty for the illusionary security...Coser, The American Communist Party: A Critical History (1919...
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Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz
Book by Richard H. Immerman; Princeton University Press, 2010
Subjects: Imperialism--History, Liberty--Political Aspects--United States--History, United States--Foreign Relations, United States--Territorial Expansion--History
...to James Birney and his splinter Liberty Party. New Yorks thirty six electoral...voted for Birney. Although his party was defeated, Seward won national...backed the hastily formed Free Soil Party that ran Van Buren and John Quincy...
3.
The Logic of Liberty
Book by G. B. Madison; Greenwood Press, 1986
Subjects: Liberty
...p. 134, n. 11: Those liberties which are menaced the most...pleads for. The two kinds of liberties which could be said to be...the industrial age are the liberties--abilities and the liberty of the Party, the State or of humanity...
4.
British Monarchy, English Church Establishment, and Civil Liberty
Book by John A. Taylor; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Church And State--England, England--Religion, Great Britain--Politics And Government, Liberty, Monarchy--Great Britain
...sectarian names evolved into party labels. Anglicanism begot...in both cases related to "liberty." In a nonspecific or nonpartisan...Whigs and Tories both praised liberty. In that non-party way...liberal attitudes toward liberty. The context, in this book...
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John Wilkes: A Friend to Liberty
Book by Peter D. G. Thomas; Clarendon Press, 1996
Subjects: Great Britain--Politics And Government--1760-1789, Liberty, Politicians--Great Britain--Biography, Radicalism--Great Britain--History--18th Century, Wilkes, John--1727-1797
...see Powlett, Charles Bossiney 100 Boston 165 Boston massacre 161 Boston Port Act 163 , 165 Boston Sons of Liberty 161 Boston Tea Party 162 , 163 Boswell, James 1740-95 3 , 60 , 209 , 268 Boulogne 59 Bradshaw, Thomas 1733-74 85 Brentford...
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The Liberty Party, 1840-1848: Antislavery Third-Party Politics in the United States
Journal article by Michael D. Pierson; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 77, 2011
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Liberty Party, 1840-1848: Anonfiction workntislavery Third-Party Politics in the United States (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...of controversies within the party, including whether the U...or proslavery, whether the party platform should include issues...than slavery, and whether Liberty voters should be allowed to...chronicles debates about whether the party should consider fusions with other antislavery parties. These issues became more...
2.
Doubting America's Sacred Duopoly: Disestablishment Theory and the Two-party System
Journal article by Brian P. Marron; Texas Forum on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights, Vol. 6, 2002
...protecting the two-party system is pretextual...promotion of a two-party system as a legitimate...establishment favoring major parties. The Supreme Court has...inseparable aspect of the liberty assured by the Due Process...Tashjian v. Republican Party of Connecticut, "the...Constitution."175 Political parties, therefore, have a...
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Collins, Thomson, and the Whig Progress of Liberty
Journal article by William Levine; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 34, 1994
Subjects: Collins, William--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Ideology--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Liberty--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Poetry--Analysis, Thomson, James--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Whig Party--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...24748). Yet the poet of Liberty tends to assume a didactic...obfuscation, Thomsons goddess of Liberty insists that a united sense...remain, Let all MY Sons all Parties fling aside, Despise their...conditions for the arrival of Liberty in England: what heroic action...
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Will, Judgment, and Economic Liberty: Mr. Justice Souter and the Mistranslation of the Due Process Clause
Journal article by Alan Meese; William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 41, 1999
Subjects: Constitutional law--Interpretation and construction, Due process of law--Laws, regulations, etc., Liberty--Laws, regulations, etc., Planned Parenthood v. Casey--505 U.S. 833 (1992), United States Constitution--U.S. Const. amend. 14, Washington v. Glucksberg--521 U.S. 702 (1997)
...by the same name--liberty. And it follows that...by the respective parties, called by two different...incompatible names--liberty and tyranny.(119...animating the Republican Party at the time.(120...abridging contractual liberty. Inequality of bargaining...between the bargaining parties, but the court saw...contract co-exist, each party when contracting is...
5.
Avalon and Liberty Heights: Toward a Better Understanding of the American Jewish Experience through Cinema
Journal article by Eric A. Goldman; American Jewish History, Vol. 91, 2003
Subjects: American Jews--Portrayals, Avalon (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Jews, American--Portrayals, Levinson, Barry--Criticism and interpretation, Levinson, Barry--Works, Liberty Heights (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation
...to go to a Halloween party a few miles away. In...While on one level Liberty Heights is a study of the liberties that two sons take in...having made it. (50) Liberty Heights provides a unique...identification. In Liberty Heights, Yussel, very...to fit in again at a party on the other side of...
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A Capitalist Party in China?
Magazine article by John Welborn; Ideas on Liberty, Vol. 53, March 2003
Subjects: China, Communism, Communist Party-China, Policy making, Political parties, Reforms
A Capitalist Party in China? by John Welborn The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is struggling to reinvent itself. At the 16th National Congress in Beijing last November, the party approved policies intended to make it appear more connected...
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Changing the Rules: Will Heckling at a Party Conference Turn You into the New Walter Wolfgang? Can the Police Stop and Search Your iPod? Allow the New Statesman's Legal Expert to Solve Your Civil Liberties Dilemmas
Magazine article by Sadakat Kadri; New Statesman, Vol. 135, October 2, 2006
Subjects: Conservative Party (United Kingdom)--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Conservative Party (United Kingdom)--Political activity, Harassment (Law)--Laws, regulations and rules, Harassment--Laws, regulations and rules, Police officers--Management, Police--Management, Terrorism--Control, United Kingdom. Protection from Harassment Act 1997, United Kingdom. Terrorism Act 2000
...Rules: Will Heckling at a Party Conference Turn You into the...Expert to Solve Your Civil Liberties Dilemmas. by Sadakat Kadri...The Tory disdain for civil liberties, from Peterloo to the poll...2006). Send your civil liberties and human-rights dilemmas...
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Today's Liberals Put Liberty League to Shame
Magazine article by Ralph De Toledano; Insight on the News, September 2, 2003
Subjects: Journalists--Moral and ethical aspects, Lewis, Anthony--Moral and ethical aspects, Liberty League Party (United States)--History, New York Times Co.--Moral and ethical aspects, Newspaper publishing--Moral and ethical aspects, Press and politics--Analysis, Press and politics--Moral and ethical aspects, United States--Political aspects
...lifted in toto from Socialist Party candidate Norman Thomas...of Benito Mussolini. The Liberty League was laughed out of...say, time marches on. The Liberty League could have held its...destruction, have put the Liberty League to shame with their...presidential power and suppress civil liberties." Author? Anthony Lewis...
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Partisan Power Play: AU Complains to IRS after Jerry Falwell's Liberty University Excommunicates College Democrats
Magazine article by Joseph L. Conn; Church & State, Vol. 62, July 2009
Subjects: Falwell, Jerry--Political activity, Falwell, Jerry--Taxation, Liberty University--Taxation, Political parties, Tax administration and procedure--Political aspects, Tax administration--Political aspects
...Hine, "The Democratic Party platform is contrary to the mission of Liberty University and to Christian...correct this injustice." Liberty officials were predictably...favoring the Democratic Party over the years, and...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED On June 1, Liberty Counsel, a Religious...
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Power to the People: John Stuart Mill's Classic Treatise on Liberty, Published 150 Years Ago, Has Much to Teach an Intellectually Exhausted Left
Magazine article by David Marquand; New Statesman, Vol. 138, July 13, 2009
Subjects: Freedom--Portrayals, Labour Party (United Kingdom)--Evaluation, Liberty--Portrayals, Mill, John Stuart--Criticism and interpretation, On Liberty (Mill, John Stuart) (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation, Socialism--Portrayals
...Stuart Mills Classic Treatise on Liberty, Published 150 Years Ago...months of 2009, the Labour Party was walking wounded. After...Stuart Mills immortal tract On Liberty, which falls this year. For...while its approach to civil liberty becomes ever more malevolent...
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GOP Senators Stray on Patriot Act; Four Buck Party Leadership on Renewal, Citing Civil Liberties Concerns
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 21, 2005
Subjects: Craig, Larry E.--Political activity, Legislators--Political aspects, Political parties--Political aspects, Senators--Political aspects, Sununu, John E.--Political activity, Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001
...on Patriot Act; Four Buck Party Leadership on Renewal, Citing Civil Liberties Concerns. Byline: Charles...say it lacks enough civil-liberties protection. While one of...terrorism, while Americans civil liberties have all the protection they...
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Roberto's Heroes at Liberty to Celebrate; PROMOTION PARTY GOES ON SWANSEA CITY4 L ORIENT 1
Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), April 27, 2008
Subjects: Anderson, Paul Thomas
Robertos Heroes at Liberty to Celebrate; PROMOTION PARTY GOES ON SWANSEA CITY4 L ORIENT 1. Byline: By CHRIS WATHAN at THE LIBERTY STADIUM TRY telling this lot...title belongs to, anyone at the Liberty Stadium would inform you the...
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A MAYHEM-FILLED CHRISTMAS! She Began the Year on Stage at the Grammys but She'll See It out 'Falling Asleep with a Party Hat On' at Home in the Liberties. Could Santa Have Anything Else in Store for Imelda May?
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 24, 2010
...It out Falling Asleep with a Party Hat On at Home in the Liberties. Could Santa Have Anything...Imelda May. To say that that the Liberties belle has had a bumper 2010...pies, falling asleep with your party hat on. We all pitch in for...
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If You're out First Ball, KP, We Will Both Win Muppet of the Year; BOWLED OVER: Kevin Congratulates Pier's Son Stanley and, above Piers with Freddie Flintoff at the Post-Match Party OVER TO YOU: Kevin Bowls as Piers, Fourth from Left, Looks on STAR COUPLE: Kevin with His Wife, Jessica from Band Liberty X
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), July 6, 2008
...Flintoff at the Post-Match Party OVER TO YOU: Kevin Bowls as...His Wife, Jessica from Band Liberty X. Byline: piers morgan It...house where I was throwing a party. It wasFreddie Flintoff and...people Id most like to have at a party, Freddie would be comfortablytop...
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LP Thanks Court for Jailed Bet's 3-Day Liberty
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, February 12, 2010
Subjects: Political parties
...Court for Jailed Bets 3-Day Liberty. Sen. Francis Pangilinan...Danilo Lim a three-day liberty to attend his school rsquo...anniversary.Pangilinan, Liberal Party spokesperson, thanked Makati...Alameda to allow the temporary liberty of General Danny Lim, our...
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Liberty Party
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LIBERTY PARTY in U.S. history, an antislavery...presidency to James K. Polk. The party remained strong in local elections...form the stronger Free-Soil party . See T. C. Smith, The Liberty and Free Soil Parties in the Northwest (1897, repr...
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Free-Soil Party
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and members of the former Liberty party . These forces met in...Zachary Taylor president. The party elected one senator, Salmon...150,000 votes. In 1854 the party was absorbed into the new Republican party. See T. C. Smith, The Liberty and Free Soil Parties in the Northwest (1897, repr...
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Liberal Party , Former British Political Party
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...handful of candidates. In 1981 the Liberal party entered into an alliance with the newly formed Social Democratic party; together they won 22 seats in the House of Commons in 1987. In 1988 the parties merged to become the Social and Liberal Democratic party (now the Liberal Democrats ). Bibliography...
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Abolitionists
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Advocates of direct political action founded (1840) the Liberty party; James G. Birney was its presidential candidate in...with their Northern brethren. After the demise of the Liberty party, the political abolitionists supported the Free-Soil...
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Civil War , in U.S. History
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...branches and dissolved the Whig party . Most Southern Whigs joined the Democratic party , one of the few remaining, if...institutions. The new Republican party , heir to the Free-Soil party and to the Liberty party , was a strictly Northern...
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