People's Party
- proper noun
- Many historians consider the People's Party to be a precursor to later progressive movements in American politics.
Examples
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These supporters thereby became the new pressure group, replacing the traditional supporters of the Republican People's Party who had held that role.
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Although the Republican People's Party had declared itself as "leftist," it did not affect the political landscape much.
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Nevertheless, since only those supporting the Republican People's Party were able to procure land and industrial benefits, the rest of the population grew resentful.
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Those close to Atatürk's party—the Republican People's Party—received economic benefits.
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Moreover, the regime, which was anchored around the Republican People's Party, chose not to organize itself politically in these provinces, preferring instead to rely solely on administrative rule.
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The Democrats were not counter-revolutionaries; they were a breakaway faction of Atatürk's Republican People's Party, and as such were cognizant of the limits to which they could go.
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Norman Pollack's The Populist Response to Industrial America: Midwestern Populist Thought (Cambridge: Harvard U P, 1962) views the People's Party as a progressive movement that would have altered the course of American history in a socialist direction.
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In 1923, Nezihe Muhittin, a leading feminist at the time, initiated a Women's People's Party, but was denied permission to open it, thereby preventing her party from competing with the Republican People's Party that the Kemalist elite had simultaneously founded.
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In the late 19th century, the People's Party emerged to advocate for farmers and laborers across the United States.
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The People's Party played a significant role in the push for monetary reform and regulation of railroads.
Synonyms
A former US political party from the 1890s that supported farmers, more silver money, and government control of railroads
Surface Forms
Morphology
People's + party
The compound is compositionally built from 'people's' (possessive of people, indicating belonging or representation) + 'party' (an organized political group), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a political party representing or belonging to the people. Identifying the exact contemporary organization requires world knowledge, but the basic referential meaning is transparently derived and cross-linguistically regular.
Etymology
People's Party got its name in the late 1800s when farmers and workers formed a party 'for the people' to fight big banks and railroads. That's why the name refers to the old Populist party that tried to help ordinary people.