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  2. Liberal Republican Party, insurgent reform wing of the U.S. Republican Party that challenged what it considered the corruption of President Ulysses S. Grant's administration by nominating a rival slate of candidates in the national election of November 1872. Led by such prominent Americans as senators Charles Sumner and Carl Schurz and editor Horace Greeley, the dissidents resisted Grant's ...
    Author:The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. 5 days agoIn 2015 the firm had been charged with corruption and fraud stemming from allegations that it had used bribery to win contracts from the Libyan government during the regime of Muammar al-Qaddafi. ... when all the votes had been counted, party representation looked much as it had after the 2019 elections. The Liberals would have 159 seats, the ...
  4. Jan 13, 2025liberalism, political doctrine that takes protecting and enhancing the freedom of the individual to be the central problem of politics. Liberals typically believe that government is necessary to protect individuals from being harmed by others, but they also recognize that government itself can pose a threat to liberty.As the American Revolutionary pamphleteer Thomas Paine expressed it in ...
  5. Jan 13, 2025Liberalism - Equality, Rights, Democracy: Such, at any rate, was the verdict reached by an increasing number of liberals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As noted above, modern liberals held that the point of government is to remove the obstacles that stand in the way of individual freedom. In this they followed the lead of thinkers and reformers such as the British political ...
  6. 5 days agoDespite allegations of corruption against the party and the uniting of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party into the Conservative Party of Canada, the Liberals maintained their hold on government. Nevertheless, the party lost nearly a quarter of its seats, and Martin oversaw a minority government.
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  7. Pacific Scandal, (1872-73), charges of corruption against Canadian prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald in awarding the contract for a transcontinental railroad; the incident resulted in the downfall of Macdonald's Conservative administration. One of the conditions under which British Columbia
  8. During the 2010 election campaign, the Liberal Democrats surged in the public opinion polls, particularly because of Clegg's performance in the country's first televised party-leader debates. In the event, however, the Liberal Democrats finished a disappointing third, winning 57 seats, 5 fewer than in 2005. With no party achieving a majority in the House of Commons, Clegg and the Liberal ...
  9. Jan 13, 2025Liberalism - Rights, Equality, Freedom: The third part of the solution followed from liberalism's basic commitment to the freedom and integrity of the individual, which the limitation of power is, after all, meant to preserve. From the liberal perspective, individuals are not only citizens who share a social contract with each other but also people with rights upon which the state may not ...
  10. Jan 7, 2025Liberal Party, a minor U.S. political party in New York state, founded in May 1944 by leaders of the moderate wing of the American Labor Party in revolt against the alleged infiltration of that party by communists. Although the party has usually favoured candidates of the Democratic Party (its 329,000 votes helped carry New York state for President Franklin D. Roosevelt in its first electoral ...
  11. Liberalism - Equality, Rights, Democracy: The three decades of unprecedented general prosperity that the Western world experienced after World War II marked the high tide of modern liberalism. But the slowing of economic growth that gripped most Western countries beginning in the mid-1970s presented a serious challenge to modern liberalism. By the end of that decade economic stagnation ...

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