In 1860 the Democrats split over the slavery issue, as the Northern and Southern wings of the party nominated different candidates (Stephen A. Douglas and John C. Breckinridge, respectively); the election that year also included John Bell, the nominee of the Constitutional Union Party.
In the presidential election of 1848, the Democrats split over the slavery issue, and abolitionists formed the Free Soil Party, with former president Van Buren as their nominee.
Whole families are split over the issue, Mr Yaginuma says.
At present the largest party at Stormont, the Democratic Unionists, are split over the issue.
The global Anglican communion has threatened to split over the issue.
That, sadly, reflects the reality of situation where families (including mine) were, and still are, split over the issue.
The credibility gap has widened in the current Dept. of Health, Educ, and Welfare split over the issue of school desegregation.
(The monument is part of the grandiose Skopje 2014 project, which we wrote about here).Macedonians are split over the issue.
The Democrats, who later split over the issue, nominated William Jennings Bryan, a populist, after his famous "cross of gold" speech at the convention.
When the French Socialist Party split over the issue of joining Lenin's Third International at its 1921 congress, he became a founding member of the French Communist Party.
