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American liberty league is founded
political organization formed in 1934 by conservative Democrats to oppose the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was active for just two years. Following the landslide re-election of Roosevelt in 1936, it sharply reduced its activities and disbanded in 1940. -
Roosevelt’s attempt to “pack” the Supreme Court causes conservative backlash in Congress
frequently called the court-packing plan,[2] was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Roosevelt's purpose was to obtain favorable rulings regarding New Deal legislation that had been previously ruled unconstitutional.[3] The central and most controversial provision of the bill would have granted the President power to appoint an additional Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court, up to a maximum of six, for every sitting -
Dwight D Eisenhower is elected as a moderate republican
Eisenhower, at 62, was the oldest man to become President since James Buchanan in 1856.[2] Harry S Truman was 60 when he became President in April 1945, upon the death of Franklin D Roosevelt, and 64 when elected President in 1948. -
Barry Goldwater runs on a conservative platform and loses to LBJ in a landslide
the Republican candidate for President, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, ran on a staunchly conservative platform. Facing Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson, Goldwater opposed government activism, including social security, federal civil rights laws and antipoverty programs. He also demanded a military buildup against a possible Soviet attack. -
Supreme Court Angers social conservatives with decision to legalize abortion
The U.S. Supreme Court issues its ruling in Roe v. Wade, finding that a "right of privacy" it had earlier discovered was "broad enough to encompass" a right to abortion and adopting a trimester scheme of pregnancy. In the first trimester, a state could enact virtually no regulation. In the second trimester, the state could enact some regulation, but only for the purpose of protecting maternal "health." -
Conservative republicans sweep the historic 1980 election
On a platform that was originally seen as "too conservative", republicans swept the elections of 1980. They got their first majority in house since Eisenhower's first time and won the presdential election
