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... defeat in 1856 and Lin- coln's failure to win against Douglas two years later con- vinced Republican leaders that the idealism of the Declara- tion of Independence provided insufficient motivation for the winning of elections . Lincoln ...
... defeat in 1856 and Lin- coln's failure to win against Douglas two years later con- vinced Republican leaders that the idealism of the Declara- tion of Independence provided insufficient motivation for the winning of elections . Lincoln ...
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... defeat its own purpose ? At any rate the public reaction to the tariff message of 1887 was a Republican Congress that gave the nation the ill - fated McKinley tariff of 1890. When in his sec- ond term Cleveland finally got his tariff ...
... defeat its own purpose ? At any rate the public reaction to the tariff message of 1887 was a Republican Congress that gave the nation the ill - fated McKinley tariff of 1890. When in his sec- ond term Cleveland finally got his tariff ...
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... defeated Republican Congressmen had voted for this cut . Truman had vetoed the tax cut of the Eightieth Con- gress on the ground that it was framed to relieve the rich . Every defeated Congressman had voted to over - ride that veto ...
... defeated Republican Congressmen had voted for this cut . Truman had vetoed the tax cut of the Eightieth Con- gress on the ground that it was framed to relieve the rich . Every defeated Congressman had voted to over - ride that veto ...
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N 2 | 120 |
The Whigs | 152 |
The Breakup of the Major Parties | 181 |
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