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The Republican party rejects cap-and-trade policy. [38] Some Republicans support increased oil drilling in protected areas such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, [39] a position that has drawn sharp criticism from some environmental activists. Republican voters are divided over the human causes of climate change and global warming. [40]
The first duty of the republican woman was to instill republican values in her children, and to avoid luxury and ostentation. [41] Two generations later, the daughters and granddaughters of these "Republican mothers" appropriated republican values into their lives as they sought independence and equality in the workforce.
Political scientists and historians have described these central values as liberty and inalienable individual rights; recognizing the sovereignty of the people as the source of all authority in law; [66] rejecting monarchy, aristocracy, and hereditary political power; virtue and faithfulness in the performance of civic duties; and vilification ...
The Republican Party represents conservatives in the United States, with 74% of Republicans identifying as conservative, compared to only 12% of Democrats. [108] As of 2022, Republican leaning voters are more likely than Democrats to prioritize the issues of immigration, the budget deficit, and strengthening the military. [109]
T he 2024 Republican National Convention (RNC) is under way in Milwaukee, Wis., where a series of speakers have begun to give addresses heralding the party platform and GOP delegates formally ...
The belief that urban America had left its rural cousins behind, exposing them to untrammelled immigration and the economic ruin of the shrinking manufacturing sector, was the book’s central song.
Republican President Theodore Roosevelt was a prominent conservationist whose policies eventually led to the creation of the National Park Service. [410] While Republican President Richard Nixon was not an environmentalist, he signed legislation to create the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 and had a comprehensive environmental program ...
The loss of the Senate by the Democratic Party may lead to a permanent Republican Senate, limiting the enactment of broad campaign promises, entrenching the perception of dysfunction in Washington ...