Republican Party Platform of 1956

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Declaration of Faith

America's trust is in the merciful providence of God, in whose image every man is created ... the source of every man's dignity and freedom.

In this trust our Republic was founded. We give devoted homage to the Founding Fathers. They not only proclaimed that the freedom and rights of men came from the Creator and not from the State, but they provided safeguards to those freedoms.

Our Government was created by the people for all the people, and it must serve no less a purpose.

The Republican Party was formed 100 years ago to preserve the Nation's devotion to these ideals.

On its Centennial, the Republican Party again calls to the minds of all Americans the great truth first spoken by Abraham Lincoln: "The legitimate object of Government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves in their separate and individual capacities. But in all that people can individually do as well for themselves, Government ought not to interfere."

Our great President Dwight D. Eisenhower has counseled us further: "In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with people's money, or their economy, or their form of government, be conservative."

While jealously guarding the free institutions and preserving the principles upon which our Republic was founded and has flourished, the purpose of the Republican Party is to establish and maintain a peaceful world and build at home a dynamic prosperity in which every citizen fairly shares.

We shall ever build anew, that our children and their children, without distinction because of race, creed or color, may know the blessings of our free land.

We believe that basic to governmental integrity are unimpeachable ethical standards and irreproachable personal conduct by all people in government. We shall continue our insistence on honesty as an indispensable requirement of public service. We shall continue to root out corruption whenever and wherever it appears.

We are proud of and shall continue our far-reaching and sound advances in matters of basic human needs—expansion of social security—broadened coverage in unemployment insurance —improved housing—and better health protection for all our people. We are determined that our government remain warmly responsive to the urgent social and economic problems of our people.

To these beliefs we commit ourselves as we present this record and declare our goals for the future.

Nearly four years ago when the people of this Nation entrusted their Government to President Eisenhower and the Republican Party, we were locked in a costly and stalemated war. Now we have an honorable peace, which has stopped the bitter toll in casualties and resources, ended depressing wartime restraints, curbed the runaway inflation and unleashed the boundless energy of our people to forge forward on the road to progress.

In four years we have achieved the highest economic level with the most widely shared benefits that the world has ever seen. We of the Republican Party have fostered this prosperity and are dedicated to its expansion and to the preservation of the climate in which it has thrived.

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The Democratic Platform, 1916

The Democratic Platform, 1840

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As the Republican Party does some soul searching, it should look to the wisdom of two of their greatest presidents, Lincoln and Eisenhower. They need to divorce themselves from Ayn Randian philosophy and re-acquaint themselves with what they stood for for 100 years.

The record of performance of the Republican Administration on behalf of our working men and women goes still further. The Federal minimum wage has been raised for more than 2 million workers. Social Security has been extended to an additional 10 million workers and the benefits raised for 6 1/2 million. The protection of unemployment insurance has been brought to 4 million additional workers. There have been increased workmen's compensation benefits for longshoremen and harbor workers, increased retirement benefits for railroad employees, and wage increases and improved welfare and pension plans for federal employees.

In addition, the Eisenhower Administration has enforced more vigorously and effectively than ever before, the laws which protect the working standards of our people.

Workers have benefited by the progress which has been made in carrying out the programs and principles set forth in the 1952 Republican platform. All workers have gained and unions have grown in strength and responsibility, and have increased their membership by 2 millions.

Furthermore, the process of free collective bargaining has been strengthened by the insistence of this Administration that labor and management settle their differences at the bargaining table without the intervention of the Government. This policy has brought to our country an unprecedented period of labor-management peace and understanding.

We applaud the effective, unhindered, collective bargaining which brought an early end to the 1956 steel strike, in contrast to the six months' upheaval, Presidential seizure of the steel industry and ultimate Supreme Court intervention under the last Democrat Administration.

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And what happened in 1957 when The GOP won?

Civil Rights Act of 1957

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The Civil Rights Act of 1957, Pub.L. 85-315, 71 Stat. 634, enacted September 9, 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress in the United States since Reconstruction following the American Civil War.

Following the historic US Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which eventually led to the integration of public schools, Southern whites in Virginia began a "Massive Resistance". Violence against blacks rose there and in other states, as in Little Rock, Arkansas, where that year President Dwight D. Eisenhower had ordered in federal troops to protect nine children integrating a public school, the first time the federal government had sent troops to the South since Reconstruction.[1] There had been continued physical assaults against suspected activists and bombings of schools and churches in the South. The administration of Eisenhower proposed legislation to protect the right to vote by African Americans.

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And what happened in 1957 when The GOP won?

Civil Rights Act of 1957

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Civil Rights Act of 1957, Pub.L. 85-315, 71 Stat. 634, enacted September 9, 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress in the United States since Reconstruction following the American Civil War.

Following the historic US Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which eventually led to the integration of public schools, Southern whites in Virginia began a "Massive Resistance". Violence against blacks rose there and in other states, as in Little Rock, Arkansas, where that year President Dwight D. Eisenhower had ordered in federal troops to protect nine children integrating a public school, the first time the federal government had sent troops to the South since Reconstruction.[1] There had been continued physical assaults against suspected activists and bombings of schools and churches in the South. The administration of Eisenhower proposed legislation to protect the right to vote by African Americans.

How has the legislation been from 2012 Republicans on the right to vote?

Voter ID Laws Could Disenfranchise 1 Million Young Minority Voters: Study

Voting laws may disenfranchise 10 million Hispanic U.S. citizens: study

(Reuters) - New voting laws in 23 of the 50 states could keep more than 10 million Hispanic U.S. citizens from registering and voting, a new study said on Sunday, a number so large it could affect the outcome of the November 6 election.

Voter ID laws: the Republican ruse to disenfranchise 5 million Americans

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Back in the day, the Republican Party used to stand for something admirable.

Now that the hijack by the New Republikudniks is nearly complete, the GOP mostly stands for lunacy.

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How has the legislation been from 2012 Republicans on the right to vote?

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was last renewed by an overwhelming majority of Republicans in both houses of Congress, and signed into law by G.W. Bush in 2006.

By a Vote of 98-0, Senate Approves 25-Year Extension of Voting Rights Act

Now that the hijack by the New Republikudniks is nearly complete, the GOP mostly stands for lunacy.

Both the major parties have their fair share of wackos.

Edited November 18, 2012 by The Patriot

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Both the major parties have their fair share of wackos.

True

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How has the legislation been from 2012 Republicans on the right to vote?

Voter ID Laws Could Disenfranchise 1 Million Young Minority Voters: Study

Voting laws may disenfranchise 10 million Hispanic U.S. citizens: study

(Reuters) - New voting laws in 23 of the 50 states could keep more than 10 million Hispanic U.S. citizens from registering and voting, a new study said on Sunday, a number so large it could affect the outcome of the November 6 election.

Voter ID laws: the Republican ruse to disenfranchise 5 million Americans

Get out of here with that stuff..... Go read a history book for like five minutes will'ya.

When my vote gets diluted by caravans of serial voters.... It's my vote that is being stolen.

If you don't have I.D. you got no bidness voting anyway.... we have made it way too easy.

I say pass a test and pay a fee to vote... enough of this free ride #######.

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When my vote gets diluted by caravans of serial voters.... It's my vote that is being stolen.

And you have evidence to back up your preposterous claim? Or do you just know it is true because "they all look alike"!

I say pass a test and pay a fee to vote... enough of this free ride #######.

You really don't believe in American rights and democracy do you?!

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And you have evidence to back up your preposterous claim? Or do you just know it is true because "they all look alike"!

You really don't believe in American rights and democracy do you?!

"Rights" is an arbitrary term.

As for democracy, show me the word in the Constitution.

Look if there is any sacred in our system of Government it would be the validity of the voting system.

HOw you gonna tell some 17 year old Marine out on patrol in some remote province of Afgan. that he can't vote.... but someone who has no I.D. that he can.

Who can deny - if you have no I.D. .. you are a screw-up sit down and learn something before you even think about voting.

I would be all for a test and maybe a residence.... if you are living off someone else.... ya got no bidness voting, if you can't manage your own life, why are we letting you help guide everyone else's.

Edited November 18, 2012 by Danno

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Where are the modern Republicans who defend the party's current platform as being 'true' to the party?

When you listen to prominent Republicans like Bobby Jindal, who though has distanced himself from Romney's divisive comment about voters wanting stuff, he still doesn't think the party's platform needs to change (he said on CNN today that the party doesn't need to become a version of the Democratic Party). However, here it is as I laid it out - the Republican Party's 1956 platform, when Eisenhower was running for his second term. Back then, the differences between both parties was more semantic than ideological. Both parties believed in a government of the people, for the people and by the people. The stench of Ayn Randian hyper-individualism and regarding government as the enemy of economic liberty hadn't infiltrated the party yet. Atlas Shrugged was published in 1957.

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Where are the modern Republicans who defend the party's current platform as being 'true' to the party?

When you listen to prominent Republicans like Bobby Jindal, who though has distanced himself from Romney's divisive comment about voters wanting stuff, he still doesn't think the party's platform needs to change (he said on CNN today that the party doesn't need to become a version of the Democratic Party). However, here it is as I laid it out - the Republican Party's 1956 platform, when Eisenhower was running for his second term. Back then, the differences between both parties was more semantic than ideological. Both parties believed in a government of the people, for the people and by the people. The stench of Ayn Randian hyper-individualism and regarding government as the enemy of economic liberty hadn't infiltrated the party yet. Atlas Shrugged was published in 1957.

As someone who has good memories of my childhood, let me say I also love the past... but we don't live in the past.

This is not 1956.

there comes a time when the "bases are covered" when the Gov't has reached it's limit.

You speak as thought we had not a decade later, in the 60,s began transferring trillions of Dollars from one set of americans to another.... in the effort to eliminate poverty. Guess what, We have more poverty, how do those people whose money was confiscated get it back?

And why are you living as if nothing has happened since 1956? as if we need to go to a document a half century old to see what is needed today?

Why not pull up our foriegn policy issues from back then too and incorporate that not our policy today?

The past is a sweet place to visit but we can't live there.

THINK PROGRESS!

Edited November 18, 2012 by Danno

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How has the legislation been from 2012 Republicans on the right to vote?

Voter ID Laws Could Disenfranchise 1 Million Young Minority Voters: Study

Voting laws may disenfranchise 10 million Hispanic U.S. citizens: study

(Reuters) - New voting laws in 23 of the 50 states could keep more than 10 million Hispanic U.S. citizens from registering and voting, a new study said on Sunday, a number so large it could affect the outcome of the November 6 election.

Voter ID laws: the Republican ruse to disenfranchise 5 million Americans

It is a requirement of the constitution to be a CITIZEN to vote. Registration to vote by a non-citizen results in mandatory deportation. It should be a requirement to register to vote that you show proof of citizenshipand proof that you ARE that citizen when you actually go to vote. If that disenfranchises someone it is becuse they need to get off their @ss and get what they need to vote in order to protect our process. If they wish to disenfranchise themselves with laziness...I am pro-choice. Aren't you?

It is again the Republicans protecting voters rights. While Democrats do what they can to allow unqualified persons to cancel your vote with one that should not be cast