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Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman  
October 2021

Panic in Party?s Demise

Publication Date : October 01, 2021
Related Categories: Education, elections, Epidemics, History, Op Ed, Political Parties, Presidents, Republicans, Slavery, United States, values
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We have a model of a party?s death throes in history, when during the 1850s, the Whig Party floundered to find its footing. Whatever issues had been important to the Whigs from its inception: limited government, fiscal responsibility, and aristocratic values (John Quincy Adams was the last of such), by 1850, slavery divided the party and the desperation was visible.

One of the worst decisions made by the Whig-dominated Supreme Court was to sustain the Fugitive Slave act: that any more...

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