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Wisconsin Legislature
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The Wisconsin Legislature is the state legislature of the U. S. state of Wisconsin. The Legislature is a body composed of the upper house Wisconsin State Senate. With both houses combined, the legislature has 132 members representing a number of constituent districts. The Legislature convenes at the capitol in Madison. The land that would become Wisconsin became part of the United States in 1783 and was first organized under the Northwest Ordinance and it became the Wisconsin Territory in 1836 and the state of Wisconsin on May 29,1848. The 1850s saw an influx of European immigrants, Womens rights groups in support of temperance and suffrage formed in Wisconsin in the 1860s. The Wisconsin Womens Suffrage Association was formed in 1869, Suffrage bills were introduced in 1855 and 1867 but both failed. However, the legislature did pass a law allowing women to run for school boards. It was not until June 10,1919, that Wisconsin became the first state to ratify the 19th amendment granting suffrage to women. Wisconsin was dominated alternately by the Republican and Progressive parties in the first century of its existence, the Republicans gained majority control in both houses in the 1995 Legislature, the first time since 1969. In 2009, the Democratic Party gained control of both houses for the first time since 1993, the Republican Party took back control of both houses in 2011. Governor Scott Walker then signed a new redistricting plan, in 2012 elections, Democrats won a majority of the vote but Republicans retained control of the legislature, taking 60 of the 99 seats in the Assembly. In Wisconsin elections,2016, Republicans secured their largest majority in the Assembly since 1956, on November 21,2016, U. S. Griesbach. The court found that the 2011 redistricting plan created three times as many wasted votes as the average, violating the United States Constitution’s guarantee of one man. All 99 members of the Wisconsin Assembly are elected in a two year term cycle without term limits, similarly, all 33 members of the Wisconsin Senate are elected in a four year cycle, also without term limits. Half of the Senate is elected every two years, prior to an amendment in the Wisconsin Constitution in 1881, Assembly members served a one year term, while Senators were elected every two years. The 100th Wisconsin Legislature began on January 3,2011, members of both houses of the Legislature vote within their ranks to select presiding officers, such as the Speaker of the Assembly and the President of the Senate. These high level positions reflect the party majority in both chambers, similarly, majority and minority leaders are also selected by party strength in the legislative houses and within their own respective caucus
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Lower house
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A lower house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house. Despite its official position below the house, in many legislatures worldwide. A legislature composed of one house is described as unicameral. In comparison with the house, lower houses frequently display certain characteristics, Powers In a parliamentary system, Much more power. Able to override the upper house in some ways, can vote a motion of no confidence against the government. In a presidential system, Somewhat less power, as the house alone gives advice. Given the sole power to impeach the executive Status Always elected directly, while the house may be elected directly, indirectly. Its members may be elected with a different voting system to the upper house, most populated administrative divisions are better represented than in the upper house, representation is usually proportional to population. Elected all at once, not by staggered terms, in a parliamentary system, can be dissolved by the executive. Has total or original control over budget and monetary laws, lower age of candidacy than the upper house. Many lower houses are named in the manner, House/Chamber of Representatives/the People/Commons/Deputies
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Robin Vos
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Robin J. Vos is an American politician. He has been a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly since 2005, representing the 63rd district, Vos is a small-business owner, owning RoJos Popcorn. He is a congressional district director and a former legislative assistant. He was a member of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents from 1989 to 1991, a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council, Vos is the groups former Wisconsin state chair. In 2016, Vos endorsed Marco Rubio for president, after Rubio dropped out of the race, Vos endorsed Ted Cruz. Wisconsin Assembly - Representative Robin J. Vos official government website Vos for Assembly official political website RoJos Popcorn Family business website
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Gordon Hintz
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Gordon N. Hintz is a Democratic Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing the 54th Assembly District since his election in 2006. Prior to serving in the Legislature, Hintz worked in government at the federal, state, Hintz worked on the 1996 U. S. Senate campaign of Paul Wellstone before going to work for U. S. Senator Herb Kohl and former U. S, representative Jay W. Johnson as a Legislative Staff Assistant in Washington, D. C. Litjens said she did not take the comments personally and thought they were directed at all Republicans, Hintz placed second in the 2003 National Air Guitar championships under the pseudonym, Krye Tuff. He appears in the documentary Air Guitar Nation about the 2003 championships
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Democratic Party of Wisconsin
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The Democratic Party of Wisconsin is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Wisconsin. It is currently headed by party chair Martha Laning. The Democratic Party dominated politics until the late 1850s, followed by the newly founded Republican Party of Wisconsin, the Republican Party held sway for almost 100 years. Jacksonian democracy was strong in Wisconsin in the days, until 1856 all territorial and state governors were Democrats. In 1854, however, a coalition of Whigs, Antislavery Democrats, from that point on, Republicans quickly gained control of most elected offices, from 1856 to 1959 there were only three Democratic governors. This period of time would last almost one hundred years, until the Democratic party would gain a foothold within the state. In the late 19th century, the Republican Party was primarily concerned with the interests of railroads, the lumber industry. In the last decade of the 19th century, the Republican Partys progressive base, the election of La Follette as governor in 1900 was the cornerstone of this movement. Democrats were virtually dormant in the state during this time, the Republicans led by La Follette employed many progressive policies within in the state of Wisconsin. These policies during the century were rather influential with the masses. The Republicans tight control of Wisconsin politics lasted until the 1950s and these changes were consistent with the new social policies being called for by the national Democratic Party. The Democrats won their first major victory when William Proxmire was elected in the late 1950s, the dawn of the 21st century has been a mixed one when it comes to control of state politics. The Democrats and Republicans in Wisconsin have both had multiple occasions of controlling either the State Assembly or the State Senate, the first decade of the twenty-first century has been an even balance between the parties fight for control of Wisconsin. The Democrats have not been in control of the governors office, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin tends to be closely aligned with many of the ideas/ideologies of the national Democratic Party in the United States. While the national Democratic Party has a scope of views. The Wisconsin Democratic Partys ideologies can be classified as liberal, progressive, many of these views can be characterized by what the party is calling for relating to the partys social ideals and economic ideals. This can encompass topics such as education, healthcare, foreign policy, environmental issues, many of these issues are addressed when the Party has their convention and they develop and vote on a party platform. A group of State Senators fled the state to halt the vote on the bill by denying a quorum, the repair bill ultimately passed after a series of appeals and judicial rulings
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Wisconsin State Capitol
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The Wisconsin State Capitol, in Madison, Wisconsin, houses both chambers of the Wisconsin legislature along with the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor. The Wisconsin State Capitol is the tallest building in Madison, a distinction that has been preserved by legislation that prohibits buildings taller than the surrounding the dome. The Capitol is located at the end of the Madison Isthmus. The streets surrounding the building form the Capitol Square, which is home to many restaurants, the first capitol was a prefabricated wood-frame council house without heat or water that had been sent hastily to Belmont. Legislators met there for 42 days after Belmont was designated the capital of Wisconsin Territory, the session chose Madison as the site of the capitol, and Burlington, Iowa as the site of further legislative sessions until Madison could be ready. The council house and a lodging house still stand and are operated by the Wisconsin Historical Society as the First Capitol Historic Site. The second capitol was constructed during 1837 in Madison of stone cut from Maple Bluff, located on the site of the present capitol, it was a small but typical frontier capitol that cost $60,000 to build. Growing government needs forced the state to construct a new capitol and this structure, with a similar U. S. Capitol-inspired dome, was built between 1857 and 1869. During 1882, it was expanded at a cost of $900,000, during 1903, however, a commission began researching replacement of the structure. On the night of February 26,1904, a gas jet ignited a newly varnished ceiling in the capitol building. Madison firefighters could not handle the blaze on their own, so additional men, the effectiveness of the reinforcements was initially hampered by very cold temperatures, by the time they reached Madison, their equipment had frozen and needed to be thawed. As a result, the structure, except the north wing. Numerous records, books, and historical artifacts were lost, including the mount of Old Abe, however, through the efforts of university students, much of the state law library was saved. The fire occurred just five weeks after the legislature had voted to cancel the capitols fire insurance policy. Construction of the present capitol, the third in Madison, began in late 1906 and was completed in 1917 at a cost of $7.25 million, Post & Sons from New York. The Capitol is 284 feet,5 inches tall from the floor to the top of the Wisconsin statue headdress on the dome. The Wisconsin statue on the dome was sculpted during 1920 by Daniel Chester French of New York and its left hand holds a globe surmounted by an eagle and her right arm is outstretched to symbolize the state motto, Forward. It wears a helmet with the animal, the badger
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Madison, Wisconsin
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Madison is the capital of the U. S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. As of July 1,2015, Madisons estimated population of 248,951 made it the second largest city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee, and the 84th largest in the United States. The city forms the core of the United States Census Bureaus Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Dane County and neighboring Iowa, Green, the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Areas 2010 population was 568,593. When the Wisconsin Territory was created in 1836 the territorial legislature convened in Belmont, One of the legislatures tasks was to select a permanent location for the territorys capital. Doty lobbied aggressively for Madison as the new capital, offering buffalo robes to the freezing legislators and he had James Slaughter plat two cities in the area, Madison and The City of Four Lakes, near present-day Middleton. Doty named the city Madison for James Madison, the fourth President of the U. S. who had died on June 28,1836 and he named the streets for the other 39 signers of the U. S. Constitution. Being named for the founding father James Madison, who had just died. The cornerstone for the Wisconsin capitol was laid in 1837, on October 9,1839, Kintzing Prichett registered the plat of Madison at the registrars office of the then-territorial Dane County. Madison was incorporated as a village in 1846, with a population of 626, when Wisconsin became a state in 1848, Madison remained the capital, and the following year it became the site of the University of Wisconsin. The Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad connected to Madison in 1854, Madison incorporated as a city in 1856, with a population of 6,863, leaving the unincorporated remainder as a separate Town of Madison. The original capitol was replaced in 1863 and the capitol burned in 1904. The current capitol was built between 1906 and 1917, during the Civil War, Madison served as a center of the Union Army in Wisconsin. Camp Randall, on the west side of Madison, was built and used as a camp, a military hospital. After the war ended, the Camp Randall site was absorbed into the University of Wisconsin, in 2004 the last vestige of active military training on the site was removed when the stadium renovation replaced a firing range used for ROTC training. The City of Madison continued annexations from the Town of Madison almost from the date of the citys incorporation, Madison is located in the center of Dane County in south-central Wisconsin,77 miles west of Milwaukee and 122 miles northwest of Chicago. The city completely surrounds the smaller Town of Madison, the City of Monona, Madison shares borders with its largest suburb, Sun Prairie, and three other suburbs, Middleton, McFarland and Fitchburg. The citys boundaries also approach the city of Verona, and the villages of Cottage Grove, DeForest, and Waunakee. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 94.03 square miles
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Wisconsin State Senate
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The Wisconsin Senate, the powers of which are modeled after those of the U. S. Senate, is the upper house of the Wisconsin State Legislature, smaller than the Wisconsin State Assembly. Together, they constitute the branch of the state of Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Constitution ties the size of the State Senate to that of the Assembly, by limiting its size to no less than 1/4, nor more than 1/3, of the size of the Assembly. Currently, Wisconsin is divided into 33 Senate Districts apportioned throughout the state based on population as determined by the decennial census, a Senate district is formed by combining three Assembly districts. Senators are elected for terms, staggered so that approximately half of the Senate is up for election every two years. If a vacancy occurs in a Senate seat between elections, it may be filled only by a special election, the Senate chamber is in the south wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol, in Madison. Senators elected or re-elected in the fall of 2008 will receive a salary of $49,943. In addition to their salaries, senators outside Dane County may receive a per diem up to $88 to cover living expenses while they are in Dane County on state business, members of the Madison delegation may receive a per diem up to $44 to cover expenses. Each senator also receives $75 per month in out-of-session pay when the Legislature is in session for three days or less, over two years, each senator is allotted $66,008 to cover general office expenses, printing, postage and district mailings. Following the 2016 elections, The Wisconsin State Senate maintained a Republican majority in January 2017 for several reasons, Democrat Julie Lassa lost her re-election to Patrick Testin. Following the retirement and death of Republican Senator Rick Gudex, Republican Dan Feyen defeated Democrat Mark Harris, the Senate has 20 Republicans and 13 Democrats. Senator from Wisconsin Tom Petri, former U. S. House Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, current U. S. House Representative Russ Feingold, former U. S. Senator from Wisconsin Tom Barrett, former U. S. House Representative and current Mayor of Milwaukee, WI Gwen Moore, current U. S. House Representative Glenn Grothman, current U. S
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Legislature
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A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city. Legislatures form important parts of most governments, in the separation of model, they are often contrasted with the executive. Laws enacted by legislatures are known as legislation, legislatures observe and steer governing actions and usually have exclusive authority to amend the budget or budgets involved in the process. The members of a legislature are called legislators, each chamber of legislature consists of a number of legislators who use some form of parliamentary procedure to debate political issues and vote on proposed legislation. There must be a number of legislators present to carry out these activities. Some of the responsibilities of a legislature, such as giving first consideration to newly proposed legislation, are delegated to committees made up of small selections of the legislators. The members of a legislature usually represent different political parties, the members from each party generally meet as a caucus to organize their internal affairs, the internal organization of a legislature is also shaped by the informal norms that are shared by its members. Legislatures vary widely in the amount of power they wield, compared to other political players such as judiciaries, militaries. In 2009, political scientists M. Steven Fish and Matthew Kroenig constructed a Parliamentary Powers Index in an attempt to quantify the different degrees of power among national legislatures, such a system renders the legislature more powerful. Legislatures will sometime delegate their legislative power to administrative or executive agencies, legislatures are made up of individual members, known as legislators, who vote on proposed laws. For example, a legislature that has 100 seats has 100 members, by extension, an electoral district that elects a single legislator can also be described as a seat, as, for, example, in the phrases safe seat and marginal seat. In parliamentary systems of government, the executive is responsible to the legislature which may remove it with a vote of no confidence, names for national legislatures include parliament, congress, diet and assembly. A legislature which operates as a unit is unicameral, one divided into two chambers is bicameral, and one divided into three chambers is tricameral. In bicameral legislatures, one chamber is considered the upper house. In federations, the upper house typically represents the component states. This is a case with the legislature of the European Union. Tricameral legislatures are rare, the Massachusetts Governors Council still exists, tetracameral legislatures no longer exist, but they were previously used in Scandinavia. Legislatures vary widely in their size, among national legislatures, Chinas National Peoples Congress is the largest with 2987 members, while Vatican Citys Pontifical Commission is the smallest with 7
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U.S. state
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A U. S. state is a constituent political entity of the United States of America. There are 50 states, which are together in a union with each other. Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a geographic territory. Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the government, Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons covered by certain types of court orders. States range in population from just under 600,000 to over 39 million, four states use the term commonwealth rather than state in their full official names. States are divided into counties or county-equivalents, which may be assigned some local authority but are not sovereign. County or county-equivalent structure varies widely by state, State governments are allocated power by the people through their individual constitutions. All are grounded in principles, and each provides for a government. States possess a number of powers and rights under the United States Constitution, Constitution has been amended, and the interpretation and application of its provisions have changed. The general tendency has been toward centralization and incorporation, with the government playing a much larger role than it once did. There is a debate over states rights, which concerns the extent and nature of the states powers and sovereignty in relation to the federal government. States and their residents are represented in the federal Congress, a legislature consisting of the Senate. Each state is represented in the Senate by two senators, and is guaranteed at least one Representative in the House, members of the House are elected from single-member districts. Representatives are distributed among the states in proportion to the most recent constitutionally mandated decennial census, the Constitution grants to Congress the authority to admit new states into the Union. Since the establishment of the United States in 1776, the number of states has expanded from the original 13 to 50, alaska and Hawaii are the most recent states admitted, both in 1959. The Constitution is silent on the question of states have the power to secede from the Union. Shortly after the Civil War, the U. S. Supreme Court, in Texas v. White, as a result, while the governments of the various states share many similar features, they often vary greatly with regard to form and substance
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Wisconsin
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Wisconsin is a U. S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, Wisconsin is the 23rd largest state by total area and the 20th most populous. The state capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee, the state is divided into 72 counties. Wisconsin is second to Michigan in the length of its Great Lakes coastline, Wisconsin is known as Americas Dairyland because it is one of the nations leading dairy producers, particularly famous for its cheese. Manufacturing, especially paper products, information technology, and tourism are major contributors to the states economy. The word Wisconsin originates from the given to the Wisconsin River by one of the Algonquian-speaking Native American groups living in the region at the time of European contact. French explorer Jacques Marquette was the first European to reach the Wisconsin River, arriving in 1673, subsequent French writers changed the spelling from Meskousing to Ouisconsin, and over time this became the name for both the Wisconsin River and the surrounding lands. English speakers anglicized the spelling from Ouisconsin to Wisconsin when they began to arrive in numbers during the early 19th century. The legislature of Wisconsin Territory made the current spelling official in 1845, the Algonquin word for Wisconsin and its original meaning have both grown obscure. Interpretations vary, but most implicate the river and the red sandstone that lines its banks, other theories include claims that the name originated from one of a variety of Ojibwa words meaning red stone place, where the waters gather, or great rock. Wisconsin has been home to a variety of cultures over the past 12,000 years. The first people arrived around 10,000 BCE during the Wisconsin Glaciation and these early inhabitants, called Paleo-Indians, hunted now-extinct ice age animals such as the Boaz mastodon, a prehistoric mastodon skeleton unearthed along with spear points in southwest Wisconsin. After the ice age ended around 8000 BCE, people in the subsequent Archaic period lived by hunting, fishing, agricultural societies emerged gradually over the Woodland period between 1000 BCE to 1000 CE. Toward the end of period, Wisconsin was the heartland of the Effigy Mound culture. Later, between 1000 and 1500 CE, the Mississippian and Oneota cultures built substantial settlements including the village at Aztalan in southeast Wisconsin. The Oneota may be the ancestors of the modern Ioway and Ho-Chunk tribes who shared the Wisconsin region with the Menominee at the time of European contact, the first European to visit what became Wisconsin was probably the French explorer Jean Nicolet. He canoed west from Georgian Bay through the Great Lakes in 1634, pierre Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers visited Green Bay again in 1654–1666 and Chequamegon Bay in 1659–1660, where they traded for fur with local Native Americans. In 1673, Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet became the first to record a journey on the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway all the way to the Mississippi River near Prairie du Chien
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United States district court
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The United States district courts are the general trial courts of the United States federal court system. Both civil and criminal cases are filed in the court, which is a court of law, equity. There is a United States bankruptcy court associated with each United States district court, each federal judicial district has at least one courthouse, and many districts have more than one. The formal name of a court is the United States District Court for the name of the district—for example. In contrast to the Supreme Court, which was established by Article III of the Constitution, there is no constitutional requirement that district courts exist at all. This view did not prevail, however, and the first Congress created the court system that is still in place today. There is at least one district for each state, the District of Columbia. District courts in three insular areas—the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands—exercise the same jurisdiction as Article III U. S. district courts, despite their name, these courts are technically not District Courts of the United States. Judges on these Article IV territorial courts do not enjoy the protections of Article Three of the Constitution, there are 89 districts in the 50 states, with a total of 94 districts including territories. The United States Court of International Trade addresses cases involving international trade, the United States Tax Court has jurisdiction over contested pre-assessment determinations of taxes. A judge of a United States district court is titled a United States District Judge. The number of judges in district court is set by Congress in the United States Code. The President appoints the judges for terms of good behavior. With the exception of the courts, federal district judges are Article III judges appointed for life. Otherwise, a judge, even if convicted of a criminal offense by a jury, is entitled to hold office until retirement or death. In the history of the United States, only twelve judges have been impeached by the House, a judge who has reached the age of 65 may retire or elect to go on senior status and keep working. A federal judge is addressed in writing as The Honorable John/Jane Doe or Hon. John/Jane Doe and in speech as Judge or Judge Doe or, when presiding in court, Your Honor. District judges usually concentrate on managing their courts overall caseload, supervising trials, since the 1960s, routine tasks like resolving discovery disputes can, in the district judges discretion, be referred to magistrate judges
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Republican Party (United States)
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The Republican Party, commonly referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party. The party is named after republicanism, the dominant value during the American Revolution and it was founded by anti-slavery activists, modernists, ex-Whigs, and ex-Free Soilers in 1854. The Republicans dominated politics nationally and in the majority of northern States for most of the period between 1860 and 1932, there have been 19 Republican presidents, the most from any one party. The Republican Partys current ideology is American conservatism, which contrasts with the Democrats more progressive platform, further, its platform involves support for free market capitalism, free enterprise, fiscal conservatism, a strong national defense, deregulation, and restrictions on labor unions. In addition to advocating for economic policies, the Republican Party is socially conservative. As of 2017, the GOP is documented as being at its strongest position politically since 1928, in addition to holding the Presidency, the Republicans control the 115th United States Congress, having majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The party also holds a majority of governorships and state legislatures, the main cause was opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise by which slavery was kept out of Kansas. The Northern Republicans saw the expansion of slavery as a great evil, the first public meeting of the general anti-Nebraska movement where the name Republican was suggested for a new anti-slavery party was held on March 20,1854, in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. The name was chosen to pay homage to Thomas Jeffersons Republican Party. The first official party convention was held on July 6,1854, in Jackson and it oversaw the preserving of the union, the end of slavery, and the provision of equal rights to all men in the American Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861–1877. The Republicans initial base was in the Northeast and the upper Midwest, with the realignment of parties and voters in the Third Party System, the strong run of John C. Fremont in the 1856 United States presidential election demonstrated it dominated most northern states, early Republican ideology was reflected in the 1856 slogan free labor, free land, free men, which had been coined by Salmon P. Chase, a Senator from Ohio. Free labor referred to the Republican opposition to labor and belief in independent artisans. Free land referred to Republican opposition to the system whereby slaveowners could buy up all the good farm land. The Party strove to contain the expansion of slavery, which would cause the collapse of the slave power, Lincoln, representing the fast-growing western states, won the Republican nomination in 1860 and subsequently won the presidency. The party took on the mission of preserving the Union, and destroying slavery during the American Civil War, in the election of 1864, it united with War Democrats to nominate Lincoln on the National Union Party ticket. The partys success created factionalism within the party in the 1870s and those who felt that Reconstruction had been accomplished and was continued mostly to promote the large-scale corruption tolerated by President Ulysses S. Grant ran Horace Greeley for the presidency. The Stalwarts defended Grant and the system, the Half-Breeds led by Chester A. Arthur pushed for reform of the civil service in 1883
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Democratic Party (United States)
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The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The Democrats dominant worldview was once socially conservative and fiscally classical liberalism, while, especially in the rural South, since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition in the 1930s, the Democratic Party has also promoted a social-liberal platform, supporting social justice. Today, the House Democratic caucus is composed mostly of progressives and centrists, the partys philosophy of modern liberalism advocates social and economic equality, along with the welfare state. It seeks to provide government intervention and regulation in the economy, the party has united with smaller left-wing regional parties throughout the country, such as the Farmer–Labor Party in Minnesota and the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota. Well into the 20th century, the party had conservative pro-business, the New Deal Coalition of 1932–1964 attracted strong support from voters of recent European extraction—many of whom were Catholics based in the cities. After Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal of the 1930s, the pro-business wing withered outside the South, after the racial turmoil of the 1960s, most southern whites and many northern Catholics moved into the Republican Party at the presidential level. The once-powerful labor union element became smaller and less supportive after the 1970s, white Evangelicals and Southerners became heavily Republican at the state and local level in the 1990s. However, African Americans became a major Democratic element after 1964, after 2000, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Asian Americans, the LGBT community, single women and professional women moved towards the party as well. The Northeast and the West Coast became Democratic strongholds by 1990 after the Republicans stopped appealing to socially liberal voters there, overall, the Democratic Party has retained a membership lead over its major rival the Republican Party. The most recent was the 44th president Barack Obama, who held the office from 2009 to 2017, in the 115th Congress, following the 2016 elections, Democrats are the opposition party, holding a minority of seats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The party also holds a minority of governorships, and state legislatures, though they do control the mayoralty of cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Washington, D. C. The Democratic Party traces its origins to the inspiration of the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and that party also inspired the Whigs and modern Republicans. Organizationally, the modern Democratic Party truly arose in the 1830s, since the nomination of William Jennings Bryan in 1896, the party has generally positioned itself to the left of the Republican Party on economic issues. They have been liberal on civil rights issues since 1948. On foreign policy both parties changed position several times and that party, the Democratic-Republican Party, came to power in the election of 1800. After the War of 1812 the Federalists virtually disappeared and the national political party left was the Democratic-Republicans. The Democratic-Republican party still had its own factions, however. As Norton explains the transformation in 1828, Jacksonians believed the peoples will had finally prevailed, through a lavishly financed coalition of state parties, political leaders, and newspaper editors, a popular movement had elected the president
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Dane County, Wisconsin
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Dane County is a county in the U. S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2010 census, the population was 488,073, the 2015 estimate places the countys population at 523,643. The county seat is Madison, which is also the state capital, Dane County is part of the Madison, Wisconsin, Metropolitan Statistical Area, as well as the Madison-Janesville-Beloit Combined Statistical Area. Dane County was formed in 1836 as a county and organized in 1839. It was named after Nathan Dane, a Massachusetts delegate to the Congress of the Confederation who helped carve Wisconsin out of the Northwest Territory, Dane County was first settled in the 1840s by settlers from New England. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 1,238 square miles. Dane County Regional Airport supports commercial airline service for Dane County, middleton Municipal Airport serves the county and surrounding communities. The population density was 394 people per square mile, there were 216,022 housing units at an average density of 174 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 84. 7% White,5. 2% Black or African American,0. 4% Native American,4. 7% Asian,0. 003% Pacific Islander,2. 5% from other races, and 2. 5% from two or more races. 5. 9% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,30. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 7. 7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.33 and the family size was 2.95. In the county, the population was out with 21. 7% under the age of 18,12. 8% from 18 to 24,29. 5% from 25 to 44,25. 7% from 45 to 64. The median age was 34.4 years, for every 100 females there were 97.80 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.00 males, as of the census of 2000, there were 426,526 people,173,484 households, and 100,794 families residing in the county. The population density was 355 people per square mile, there were 180,398 housing units at an average density of 150 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 88. 96% White,4. 00% Black or African American,0. 33% Native American,3. 45% Asian,0. 03% Pacific Islander,1. 43% from other races, and 1. 79% from two or more races. 3. 37% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,34. 4% were of German,11. 5% Norwegian,8. 9% Irish and 6. 0% English ancestry. 29. 40% of all households were made up of individuals and 7. 00% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.37 and the average family size was 2.97
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Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
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Milwaukee County is a county in the U. S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2010 census, the population was 947,735 and was estimated to be 956,406 in 2014 and it is the most populous county in Wisconsin and the 45th most populous in the United States. Its county seat is Milwaukee, which is also the most populous city in the state, the county was created in 1834 as part of Michigan Territory and organized the following year. Milwaukee County is included in the Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, Milwaukee County remained attached to Brown County for judicial purposes until Aug.25,1835, when an act was passed by the Michigan territorial legislature giving it an independent organization. In 1846 Waukesha County was created by taking from Milwaukee all of the territory west of range 21, reducing Milwaukee County to its present boundaries. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 1,190 square miles. It is the third-smallest county in Wisconsin by land area and it is watered by the Milwaukee, Menomonee, Kinnickinnic, and Root Rivers. The surface is undulating, and the calcareous and fertile. The population density was 3,932 people per square mile, there were 418,053 housing units at an average density of 1,734 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 60. 6% White,26. 8% Black or African American,0. 7% Native American,3. 4% Asian,0. 003% Pacific Islander,5. 4% from other races, and 3. 0% from two or more races. 13. 3% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,33. 7% of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.41 and the family size was 3.14. In the county, the age distribution was out, with 24. 9% under the age of 18,11. 4% from 18 to 24,28. 1% from 25 to 44,24. 1% from 45 to 64. The median age was 33.6 years, for every 100 females there were 93.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.2 males, as of the 2000 census, there were 940,164 people,377,729 households and 225,126 families resided in the county. The population density was 3,931 people per square mile, there were 400,093 housing units at an average density of 1,656 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 65. 6% White,24. 6% Black or African American,0. 7% Native American,2. 6% Asian,0. 04% Pacific Islander,4. 2% from other races, and 2. 2% from two or more races. 8. 8% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,25. 0% were of German,10. 9% Polish and 5. 3% Irish ancestry
