LIBERTYPARTY
Liberty Party
The Liberty Party was a minor political party in the United States in the 1840s . The party was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause. It broke away from the American Anti-Slavery Society to advocate the view that the Constitution was an anti-slavery document; William Lloyd Garrison, leader of the AASS, held the contrary view that the Constitution should be condemned as an evil pro-slavery document. The party included abolitionists who were willing to work within electoral politics to try to influence people to support their goals; the radical Garrison, by contrast, opposed voting and working within the system.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Liberty Party (United States, 1840)
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