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The word caucus came into use in the British colonies of North America to describe clubs or private meetings at which political matters were discussed. It is first found in reference to the Caucus Club of Boston, which was established in c.1719, although the name is not documented until c. 1760. There are three main theories for the word's ...
Also called the Blue Dog Democrats or simply the Blue Dogs. A caucus in the United States House of Representatives comprising members of the Democratic Party who identify as centrists or conservatives and profess an independence from the leadership of both major parties. The caucus is the modern development of a more informal grouping of relatively conservative Democrats in U.S. Congress ...
The Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Polish pronunciation: ⓘ; Polish: Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) is the lower house of the Polish parliament.Its name comes from what was once a generic Polish word for a political gathering.
The arguably most noted political salonnière of the Swedish age of liberty was countess Hedvig Catharina De la Gardie (1695–1745), whose salon has some time been referred to as the first in Sweden, and whose influence on state affairs exposed her to libelous pamphlets and made her a target of Olof von Dahlin's libelous caricature of the ...
The political gathering will feature televised speeches by rising Republican stars and Trump's choice for a running mate, while also highlighting the party's stance on topics such as abortion ...
A late 19th-century view of the smoking room in a gentlemen's club. The three men at lower right are engaged in earnest discussion. In U.S. political jargon, a smoke-filled room (sometimes called a smoke-filled back room) is an exclusive, sometimes secret political gathering or round-table-style decision-making process.
The three-day political gathering drew about 1,800 delegates from across Washington, the majority of whom showed outspoken support for Bird. Bird picked up 72% of the vote and clinched the party ...
In politics, a diet (/ ˈ d aɪ. ə t / DY-ət) is a formal deliberative assembly.The term is used historically for deliberative assemblies such as the German Imperial Diet (the general assembly of the Imperial Estates of the Holy Roman Empire), as well as a designation for modern-day legislative bodies of certain countries and states such as the National Diet of Japan, or the German Bundestag ...