Category: History - American

American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date

The parties peculiar to our Colonial times hardly have a place in American politics. They divided people in sentiment simply, as they did in the mother country, but here there was little or no power to act, and were to gather results from party victories. Men were then Whigs o...

Chapters

1. BOOK I.—HISTORY OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES.

2. BOOK II.—POLITICAL PLATFORMS.

3. BOOK III.—GREAT SPEECHES ON GREAT ISSUES.

4. BOOK IV.—PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE, Etc.

5. BOOK V.—TABULATED HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGICAL POLITICS.

6. BOOK I.

The parties peculiar to our Colonial times hardly have a place in American politics. They divided people in sentiment simply, as they did in the mother country, but here there w...

7. BOOK II.

THE FIRST POLITICAL PLATFORM ENUNCIATED IN THE UNITED STATES TO COMMAND GENERAL ATTENTION WAS DRAWN BY MR. MADISON IN 1798, WHOSE OBJECT WAS TO PRONOUNCE THE ALIEN AND SEDITION...

8. BOOK III.

“A most daring spirit of resistance and disobedience still prevails in Massachusetts, and has broken forth in fresh violences of a criminal nature. The most proper and effectual...

9. BOOK IV.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of...

10. BOOK V.

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11. BOOK I.

12. BOOK II.

13. BOOK III.

14. BOOK IV.

JEFFERSON’S MANUAL Absence, Sec. 8, 4026 Adjournment, Sec. 50, 4052 Address, Sec. 10, 4027 Amendment, Sec. 35, 4041 Amendment between the Houses, Sec. 45, 4048 Arrangement of bu...

15. BOOK V.

In the Ritual the words in parentheses are omitted. In the key to the Ritual, they are written in figures—the alphabet used being the same as printed below. So throughout.

16. Book III added 3000, Book IV added 4000, Book V added 5000, Index

added 6000. 5. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. 6. Enclosed bold font in =equals=. 7. Denoted subscripts by an underscore before a series of subscripted characters enclos...