Book II. Political Platforms

• Date. Page.
• 1796 Washington’s Farewell Address to the People, 2014
• 1798 Virginia Resolutions, 2003
• 1799 Answers of the Several State Legislatures, 2006
• 1798–99 Resolutions of 1798 and 1799, 2010
• 1800 Republican Platform, Philadelphia, 2021
• 1812 Clintonian Platform, 2022
• 1815 Resolutions passed by Hartford Convention, 2023
• 1830 Anti-masonic resolution, 2024
• 1832 National Democratic Platform, 2024
• 1836 Locofoco Platform, 2024
• 1836 Whig Resolutions, 2024
• 1839 Abolition Resolution, 2025
• 1840–48 Abolition Platform, 2025
• 1840 Democratic Platform, 2025
• 1843 Liberty Platform, 2026
• 1844 Whig Platform, 2027
• 1844 Democratic Platform, 2028
• 1848 Democratic Platform, 2028
• 1848 Whig Principles adopted at a Republican meeting, 2030
• 1848 Buffalo Platform, 2030
• 1852 Democratic Platform, 2032
• 1852 Whig Platform, 2033
• 1852 Free-Soil Platform, 2034
• 1856 American Platform, 2035
• 1856 Democratic Platform, 2036
• 1856 Republican Platform, 2039
• 1856 Whig Platform, 2040
• 1860 Constitutional Union Platform, 2041
• 1860 Republican Platform, 2041
• 1860 Democratic (Douglas) Platform, 2043
• 1860 Democratic (Breckenridge) Platform, 2043
• 1864 Radical Platform, 2044
• 1864 Republican Platform, 2044
• 1864 Democratic Platform, 2045
• 1868 Republican Platform, 2046
• 1868 Democratic Platform, 2047
• 1872 Labor Reform Platform, 2049
• 1872 Prohibition Platform, 2050
• 1872 Liberal Republican Platform, 2050
• 1872 Democratic Platform, 2051
• 1872 Republican Platform, 2051
• 1872 Democratic (Straight-out) Platform, 2053
• 1875 American National Platform, 2053
• 1876 Prohibition Reform Platform, 2054
• 1876 Independent (Greenback) Platform, 2054
• 1876 Republican Platform, 2055
• 1876 Democratic Platform, 2057
• 1878 National Platform, 2059
• 1879 National Liberal Platform, 2060
• 1880 Independent Republican Principles, 2060
• 1880 Republican Platform, 2061
• 1880 National (Greenback) Platform, 2063
• 1880 Prohibition Reform Platform, 2064
• 1880 Democratic Platform, 2066
• 1880 Virginia Republican, 2067
• 1880 Virginia Readjuster, 2067
• 1880 Virginia Democratic, 2068
• 1884 Democratic Platform, 2069
• 1884 Republican Platform, 2073
• 1888 Democratic Platform, 2075
• 1888 Republican Platform, 2076
• 1892 Democratic Platform
• 1892 Republican Platform

Comparison of Platform Planks on Great Political Questions.

• General Party Doctrines, 2079
• The Rebellion, 2080
• Home Rule, 2080
• Internal Improvements, 2082
• National Debt and Interest, the Public Credit, Repudiation, etc., 2082
• Resumption, 2083
• Capital and Labor, 2084
• Tariff, 2085
• Education, 2086
• Duty to Union Soldiers and Sailors, 2086
• Naturalization and Allegiance, 2087
• Chinese, 2088
• Civil Service, 2089
• The Tariff Issue of 1884, 2090
• The Tariff and Revenue, 1888, 2091
• Civil Service Reform, 1888, 2092
• Pensions, etc., 1888, 2093
• Pauper Labor, 1888, 2093
• Foreign Policy, 1888, 2093
• Comparison of Platform Planks, 1892, 2095