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Orange | country = United States }} The Constitutional Union Party (also known as the "Bell-Everett Party" in California) was a political party in the United States created in 1860. It was made up of conservative former Whigs who wanted to avoid secessionism over the slavery issue. These former Whigs (some of whom had been under the banner of the Opposition Party in 1854–58) teamed up with former Know-Nothings and a few Southern Democrats who were against secessionism to form the Constitutional Union Party. Its name comes from its extremely simple platform, a simple resolution "to recognize no political principle other than the Constitution of the country, the Union of the states, and the Enforcement of the Laws". They hoped that by failing to take a firm stand either for or against slavery or its expansion, the issue could be pushed aside. == Beginnings == A predecessor of the Constitutional Union Party was founded in 1850 by Georgia politicians Robert Toombs, Alexander Stephens, and Howell Cobb to support the Compromise of 1850, and reject the notion of Southern secession. This party united Southern Whigs and Democrats under the Georgia Platform, which affirmed Georgia's acceptance of the Compromise as a final resolution to the issue of slavery. However, the party never expanded outside of the Deep South states of Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama, and had dissolved by the end of 1851. The 1860 incarnation of the Constitutional Union Party united Whigs and Know-Nothings who were unwilling to join Democrats or the Republicans. Senator John J. Crittenden of Kentucky, Henry Clay's successor in border-state Whiggery, set up a meeting among fifty conservative, pro-compromise congressmen in December 1859, which led to a convention in Baltimore the week of May 9, 1860, one week before the Republican Party convention. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Constitutional Union Party (United States)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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