In The Republican Evolution, Kenneth Janda examines every Republican platform since 1856 as well as candidate statements and historical sources, to trace the evolution of the party’s positions on topics such as states’ rights, trade, taxation, regulation, law and order, immigration, environmental protection, and voting rights.
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May 12, 1846
James K. Polk
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I herewith transmit to Congress a copy of a communication* from the officer commanding the Army in Texas, with the papers which accompanied it. They were received by the Southern mail of yesterday, some hours after my message of that date had been transmitted, and are of a prior date to one of the communications from the same...
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Kenneth Janda, The Republican Evolution: From Governing Party to Antigovernment Party 1860-2020
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