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

Author: Cooper, Thomas V. (Thomas Valentine), 1835-1909; Fenton, Hector T. (Hector Tyndale), 1850-1924

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71502

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=American+politics+%28non-partisan%29+from+the+beginning+to+date+Cooper&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 or Tories because they had been prior to their emigration here, or because their parents had been, or because it has ever been natural to show division in individual sentiment. Political contests, however, were unknown, for none enjoyed the pleasures and profits of power; the crown made and unmade rulers. The local self-government which our forefathers enjoyed, were secured to them by their charters, and these were he...

## Chapters

- [BOOK I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-politics-non-partisan-from-the-beginning-to-date-71502/chapters/6/index.md)
- [BOOK III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-politics-non-partisan-from-the-beginning-to-date-71502/chapters/8/index.md)
- [BOOK II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-politics-non-partisan-from-the-beginning-to-date-71502/chapters/7/index.md)
- [BOOK IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-politics-non-partisan-from-the-beginning-to-date-71502/chapters/9/index.md)
- [BOOK V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-politics-non-partisan-from-the-beginning-to-date-71502/chapters/10/index.md)
- [BOOK V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-politics-non-partisan-from-the-beginning-to-date-71502/chapters/15/index.md)
- [BOOK IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-politics-non-partisan-from-the-beginning-to-date-71502/chapters/14/index.md)
- [BOOK I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-politics-non-partisan-from-the-beginning-to-date-71502/chapters/11/index.md)
- [BOOK I.—HISTORY OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-politics-non-partisan-from-the-beginning-to-date-71502/chapters/1/index.md)
- [BOOK III.—GREAT SPEECHES ON GREAT ISSUES.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-politics-non-partisan-from-the-beginning-to-date-71502/chapters/3/index.md)
- [BOOK II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-politics-non-partisan-from-the-beginning-to-date-71502/chapters/12/index.md)
- [BOOK III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-politics-non-partisan-from-the-beginning-to-date-71502/chapters/13/index.md)
- [BOOK II.—POLITICAL PLATFORMS.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-politics-non-partisan-from-the-beginning-to-date-71502/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Book III added 3000, Book IV added 4000, Book V added 5000, Index](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-politics-non-partisan-from-the-beginning-to-date-71502/chapters/16/index.md)
- [BOOK IV.—PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE, Etc.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-politics-non-partisan-from-the-beginning-to-date-71502/chapters/4/index.md)
- [BOOK V.—TABULATED HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGICAL POLITICS.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-politics-non-partisan-from-the-beginning-to-date-71502/chapters/5/index.md)