United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal, Part 3H. Colburn, 1836 - Military art and science |
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... party members , not just leaders , helped decide how the party was run and who the candidates would be . Back then , a strong party meant candidates didn't have to be wealthy or famous to run for office . They knew other party members ...
... party members , not just leaders , helped decide how the party was run and who the candidates would be . Back then , a strong party meant candidates didn't have to be wealthy or famous to run for office . They knew other party members ...
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... party they prefer. Scholars refer to it as the party in the electorate.7 Although American parties do not have formal memberships, dues, and regular meetings, as many parties in Europe do, American party identifiers often feel strong ...
... party they prefer. Scholars refer to it as the party in the electorate.7 Although American parties do not have formal memberships, dues, and regular meetings, as many parties in Europe do, American party identifiers often feel strong ...
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... party organization. But it also seemed, at times, to offer a challenge to 'party' itself. Parties of a kind existed in Britain as early as the seventeenth century; by the mid-eighteenth century 'party' was central to British politics ...
... party organization. But it also seemed, at times, to offer a challenge to 'party' itself. Parties of a kind existed in Britain as early as the seventeenth century; by the mid-eighteenth century 'party' was central to British politics ...
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... party, both symbolically and in practice: only a mutual corporate structure would begin to approximate the political party as classically imagined. In an unincorporated association, the arrangement one joins is assumed to be ongoing and ...
... party, both symbolically and in practice: only a mutual corporate structure would begin to approximate the political party as classically imagined. In an unincorporated association, the arrangement one joins is assumed to be ongoing and ...
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... party in the House of Commons , which was one of its most notice- able and important elements . This was the party of the Peelites the party under whose banner Keogh had fought when first he stood for Athlone . From that party also the ...
... party in the House of Commons , which was one of its most notice- able and important elements . This was the party of the Peelites the party under whose banner Keogh had fought when first he stood for Athlone . From that party also the ...
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