Federalists
Full Name: American Federalist Party
Shorthand: Federalists, AFP
Mascot: Beaver
Direction: "Right"
Regional Base: New England, Rust Belt
Presidents since World War II:
Earl Warren (1945-52)
James F. Knight (1965-66)
William B. Keller (1967-72, 1977-80)
Clifford Ellington (1985-92)
Maxwell Knight (1993-2000)
David Hockley (2000-01)

Quote:
"As the nations original party, the Federalist Party stands for America against all of its threats at home and abroad. We believe in a vigorous national defense. We believe in pro-actively handling foreign threats before they reach our shores.

It's become chic to argue that the United States needs to be more humble and tread more carefully. We reject that notion and believe that we have been blessed by God with the most prosperous nation in the history of the world. We will never apologize for that.

"Despite our prosperity, there is still much work to do at home. A truly free people cannot exist side-by-side poverty and want. As such, we believe in worker's rights, the rights to collectively bargain, and a livable minimum wage so that our children can afford clothes and school supplies.

"None of this should come at the expense of business, however. We believe that corporations make the backbone of our success and we would never want to do them harm. As such, we support reforming our legal system to a business-friendly, or as we say 'innovation-friendly', environment. For too long we've blamed problems the problems in this country on those that have made it most successful.

"There are those that say the reward for our success is to stop doing those things that have made us successful. That sounds to me the path to ruin. Our debt to ourselves and, more importantly, or children, is not to cash in our chips, but rather to continue our prosperity.

"The chief reason to the success of our nation is the moral righteousness of our cause. We spread our ideals of democracy and freedom abroad and at home we prove that liberty is not license. We reject the notion that liberty is the right to be a danger either to our safety or our moral climate. Therefore we support an aggressive criminal justice system there to assure that we remain a moral people, worthy of the prosperity and freedom that has been bestowed upon us."
-President James Maxwell Knight, January 20, 1997.

Positions:
In favor of a balanced budget
Against legal abortion
In favor of gun control
In favor of robust, or even nationalized, health care system.
In favor of tort reform
In favor of tight smoking restrictions
Ambivalent to the "seperation of church and state"
Against an unfettered free market
Against environmental regulations
In favor of a strong, security-based national defense
Against disarmament
In favor of tough drug laws
In favor of tough immigration laws

Strongly supported by:
Unions
Catholics
Military personnel
Married women
Jews
Media
African Americans
Large corporations

Strongly opposed by:
Hollywood
Feminists
Environmentalists
Homosexual groups
Small businesses
Hyper-sapiens
NRA
Immigrants


Whigs
Full Name: National Alliance Party
Shorthand: Whig, Alliance, NAP
Mascot: Platypus
Direction: "Left"
Regional Base: Pacific Coast, Southwest
Presidents since WWII:
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-60)
Albert Gore (1961-65)
Peter Mitchem (1973-77)
Martin Holt (1981-85)
Franklin R. Cale (2001- )

Quote:
"America is about more than a flag or invading a foreign land. The Constitution is more than simply something locked away under protective glass, frozen from time.

"Freedom is about more than the freedom to live a moral life. It's about determining for yourself what actually is a moral life.

"They call us Whigs. I, for once, accept that label proudly. In England the Whigs were known for standing up against the crowd. Centuries later, our party finds itself standing up against a new crown - a triumvirate of government, corporations, and the military industrial complex.

"I submit to you that the conglomeration of these three forces is the true threat to our way of life. It isn't United South America or hyper-sapiens, it is those that would tell us how we must live.

"We support a woman's right to choose, an immigrant's right to make a new life, a homosexual's right to follow his or her own destiny, and a hyper-sapien's right to simply exist. Freely.

"We support freedom of commerce. That means the consumer's right to choose - a right denied by monopolistic corporations everywhere.

"The Federalists argue that they stand for America and Freedom. Yet they support those that dirty our air and water. Yet they support a draft for their questionable wars abroad and high taxation at home - yet another choice freedom they are denying the American people.

"They say they stand for America and freedom, yet they sell it away dollar by dollar. America is about freedom and freedom is about the ability to choose and, most of all, to live freely."
-Senator Evan Edward Dobbs (NA-IL), August 10, 1996

Positions:
In favor of lower taxes
Pro-choice
Against the death penalty
Against gun control
Against affirmative action
Against tort reform
Against restrictions on smoking
In favor of environmental regulation
In favor of market competition
In favor of the League of Nations
In favor of disarmament
In favor of the "seperation of church and state"

Strongly supported by:
Hollywood
NRA
Small businesses
Trial lawyers
Immigrants
Feminists
Environmentalists
Homosexual groups
Hyper-sapiens

Strongly opposed by:
Military personnel
Married women
Jews
Media
Unions
Catholics
African Americans
Large corporations
Oil industry

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