Conspectus of the History of Political Parties and the Federal Government/Platforms of the Political Parties

by Walter Raleigh Houghton

Platforms of the Political Parties.

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1789–1799.

NO PLATFORMS.

• Extract of 1798 Kentucky Resolutions
• Extract of 1798 Virginia Resolutions
• Extract of 1799 Kentucky Resolutions

1800.

No Federal Platform.

• 1800 Republican Party Platform

1801–1811.

No platforms.

1812.

No Republican Platform.

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No Federal Platform.

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• 1812 Clintonian Platform

1815.

• 1815 Hartford Convention Resolutions

1813–1829.

No Platforms.

1830.

• 1830 Anti-Masonic Party Resolution

1832.

• 1832 National Republican Platform

1836.

• 1836 Locofoco Platform
• 1836 Whig Party Resolutions

1839.

• 1839 Abolition Party Resolution

1840.

• 1840 Democratic Party Platform

1843.

• 1843 Liberty Party Platform

1844.

• 1844 Whig Party Platform
• 1844 Democratic Party Platform

1848.

• 1848 Democratic Party Platform
• 1848 Whig Party Principles
• 1848 Buffalo Platform (of the Free-Soil Party)

1852.

• 1852 Democratic Party Platform
• 1852 Whig Party Platform
• 1852 Free-Soil Party Platform

1856.

• 1856 American Party Platform
• 1856 Democratic Party Platform
• 1856 Republican Party Platform
• 1856 Whig Party Platform

1860.

• 1860 Constitutional Union Party Platform
• 1860 Republican Party Platform
• 1860 Democratic Party Platform (Douglas)
• 1860 Democratic Party Platform (Breckinridge)

1864.

• 1864 Radical Party Platform
• 1864 Republican Party Platform
• 1864 Democratic Party Platform

1868.

• 1868 Republican Party Platform
• 1868 Democratic Party Platform

1872.

• 1872 Labor Reform Party Platform
• 1872 Prohibition Party Platform
• 1872 Liberal Republican Party Platform
• 1872 Democratic Party Platform
• 1872 Republican Party Platform
• 1872 Democratic Party (Straight-Out) Platform

1875.

• 1875 American National Party Platform

1876.

• 1876 Prohibition Reform Party Platform
• 1876 Independent (Greenback) Party Platform
• 1876 Republican Party Platform
• 1876 Democratic Party Platform

1878.

• 1878 National Party Platform

1879.

• 1879 National Liberal Party Platform

1880.

• 1880 Independent Republican Party Principles
• 1880 Republican Party Platform
• 1880 National (Greenback) Party Platform
• 1880 Prohibition Reform Party Platform
• 1880 Democratic Party Platform