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7 unusual facts about Political faction


Chosen Realm

Meanwhile, the Enterprise encounters a group of ships from the other Triannon faction and they enter into battle.

Heinrich Krone

From 1955 to 1961 he served as the chairman of the CDU faction in the Bundestag, and was a trusted colleague of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.

Neoconservatism in Japan

The neoconservatives generally eschew traditional party-line factionalism, form alliances with lawmakers connected to defense, and create their own study committees.

Political faction

Similarly, in the tenth installment of the Federalist Papers, James Madison defines a faction as "a number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community." In plain English this is a group that pursues self-interest at the expense of the common good.

In Byzantine Constantinople, two such chariot factions, blue and green, repeatedly made or broke the claims of candidates to the imperial throne.

Occasionally, the term "faction" is still used more or less as a synonym for political party, but "with opprobrious sense, conveying the imputation of selfish or mischievous ends or turbulent or unscrupulous methods", according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Wallace Townsend

He became an integral part of the GOP legal counsel active in the Lily White faction, which sought to recruit white Conservative Democrats into the Republican Party, then previously the domain of the relatively few African-American voters registered in the state.


Casiniani

Casiniani refers to the faction around Pier Ferdinando Casini, leader of the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats, a political party in Italy.

Formigoniani

Formigoniani refers to the faction around Roberto Formigoni, a leading member of Forza Italia, a political party in Italy.

Henry L. Fuqua

The five included future Lieutenant Governor Coleman Lindsey of Minden, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, who was affiliated with the Long faction.

Tremontiani

Tremontiani referred to the faction around Giulio Tremonti, a leading member of The People of Freedom (PdL), a political party in Italy.


see also

Bucktail

Bucktails, the name of a political faction in New York State or the 13th Pennsylvania Reserves, an American Civil War unit

Tetsuzan Nagata

Nagata was considered a leading member of the moderate Tōseiha political faction within the military, and was also regarded as an expert on Germany.