Anti-Masonic Party


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Noun1.Anti-Masonic Party - a former political party in the United States; founded in 1825 in opposition to Freemasonry in public affairs
party, political party - an organization to gain political power; "in 1992 Perot tried to organize a third party at the national level"
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1836: The Anti-Masonic Party may have invented the political nominating convention, but it certainly didn't perfect it; the party's second effort ends without a presidential nominee amid fears that front-runner William Henry Harrison does not actually oppose Freemasonry in all cases.
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Morgan's disappearance inflamed what historians call our Burned-Over District; within a lustrum, an Anti-Masonic Party ran vigorously in upstate New York, Vermont, and Pennsylvania.
Paranoia will destroy ya
Their secret oaths and rituals had long caused rumors and gossip, which after 1826 led to various anti-Masonic movements and the establishment of the Anti-Masonic Party.
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In 1831, however, the Anti-Masonic Party held in Boston the first-ever convention to determine a single presidential candidate.
Delegate dilemmas and duties: although today's complex nominating process for delegates to the party conventions is not what the Founders envisioned, delegates still have a duty to uphold the Constitution

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