Behind their rhetoric, Author Josephson finds a logic based on the very structure of the political parties. Before the Civil War, he says, the political party had become a fourth and decisive ...

A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control ... formed Republican party, whose members ...

Edexcel Component 3, Section 5.2: The key ideas and principles of the Democratic and Republican Parties AQA Component 3.2, Section 3.2.1.6: Political parties: the ideological changes in both the ...