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A November/December 2013 poll found that 63% of Republicans believe same-sex marriage should be left up to individual states to decide. [98] In 2017, Pew Research polling found that for the first time a majority of Republicans weren't opposed to same-sex marriage, with 48% against and 47% in favor.
More broadly, in Federalist No. 10, Madison distinguished a democracy from a republic. Jefferson warned that "an elective despotism is not the government we fought for." [80] Madison wrote: In a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic, they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents.
The Founding Fathers of the United States rarely praised and often criticized (direct) democracy, which they equated with mob rule; James Madison argued that what distinguished a democracy from a republic was that the former became weaker as it got larger and suffered more violently from the effects of faction, whereas a republic could get ...
Ideologies among Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. are at the most extreme level in decades, according to a survey published Thursday. The Gallup poll found that political party ...
Too many people think democracy works only if they get to dominate their opponents. ... including 58 percent of Democrats and 45 percent of Republicans. The 21 percent favoring the idea include 17 ...
Republicans during the Progressive Era were divided between a conservative faction and a progressive faction. [33] Theodore Roosevelt split from the Republican Party in 1912, and his supporters formed the short-lived Progressive Party. This party advocated a strong collectivist government and a large number of social and political reforms. [39]
Republicans believe Trump has a mandate after sweeping all seven swing states and a plurality of the popular vote in November to gut a Washington establishment many voters believe ignored their ...
The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.It emerged as the main political rival of the then-dominant Democratic Party in the 1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since then.