Republican Party
English
editEtymology
editThe name was proposed at the first public meeting of the anti-Nebraska movement on March 20, 1854, at the Little White Schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, and partly chosen to pay homage to Thomas Jefferson’s Democratic-Republican Party.
Proper noun
editthe Republican Party
- (US politics) A right-wing conservative political party in the United States.
- Synonym: GOP
Translations
editpolitical party in the United States
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