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    Politics and Public Service by Third Parties

    All those who have heard of the Free Soil Party raise your right hand. The rest of you relax, don't feel guilty because you were all victims of the public school system. This third party elected 14 House members and 2 Senators and their miniscule influence was responsible for abolition and several other reforms needed and embraced by the then new Republican party. Apparently our Great Great grandfathers had the courage of their convictions to vote for people they could agree with and tolerate in office and not the same old political hacks pushed by the papers and back room cigar brigade. They were not a majority but they made the majority pay attention.

    In the Election of 1848, Van Buren was passed over again by the Democrats, so he and antislavery forces from the Democratic (such as the Barnburners), Whig and Liberty parties formed the Free-Soil Party. At a convention in Buffalo, New Yorkon August 9, 1848, more than 10,000 men from all the northern states and thee border states met in a huge tent in a city park. The resulting Free Soil Party was built on a coalition of four elements: the previous Liberty Party, Free-Soil Democrats, Barnburners, and Conscience Whigs. The convention adopted a platform that called for:

    • Opposition to the extension of slavery into the territories
    • Support for national internal improvement programs
    • Support for moderate tariffs designed for revenue only
    • Support for the enactment of a homestead law.


    http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h139.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by old Grump View Post
    All those who have heard of the Free Soil Party raise your right hand.
    And just for the record i was a preferred chewtoy of the public school system too.
    It's amazing what you begin to learn once you've heard the pop.
    History has a severe case of stuttering complicated by chronic hiccups.
    It always repeats itself and it never fails that something will go horribly wrong along the way.


    Direct democracy is a gang rape. Eight men vote to rape one woman and the woman has to accept it because the majority decided that it was ok. A constitutional republic on the other hand is eight men and one woman with a full mag. Think about it for a while until it hurts your head.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stinker View Post




    And just for the record i was a preferred chewtoy of the public school system too.
    It's amazing what you begin to learn once you've heard the pop.
    That's one.
    I bet you learned after you got out of school unless you were lucky and had one whiz bang super great civics teacher.

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    Quote Originally Posted by old Grump View Post
    That's one.
    I bet you learned after you got out of school unless you were lucky and had one whiz bang super great civics teacher.
    Count in years the time gap between leaving school and pulling the wire out of the back of my head.
    The most important question you can ask, is are you asking the right questions.
    Took me a while to figure that simple but oh so important thing out.
    God bless the internet and it's search engines.
    Except google, they suck.
    History has a severe case of stuttering complicated by chronic hiccups.
    It always repeats itself and it never fails that something will go horribly wrong along the way.


    Direct democracy is a gang rape. Eight men vote to rape one woman and the woman has to accept it because the majority decided that it was ok. A constitutional republic on the other hand is eight men and one woman with a full mag. Think about it for a while until it hurts your head.

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