Republican (United States)
Republican Party (English: Republican Party), often referred to as GOP (English: Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties, the other is the Democratic Party. Since 1854 the party, by the Republican president of the first Abraham Lincoln so far, 29 US presidents have 18 are Republicans. The early Republican Party, combined with the political forces that opposed the expansion of slavery at the time, laid the foundation for "personal freedom" and "national solidarity". In contemporary politics, the Republicans are seen as social conservatism (including the maintenance of "family value"), economic classical liberalism (including support for "conservative fiscal policy") and a hard-line attitude towards diplomacy and defense American allies security, such as Kuwait, Israel and Japan, and support the war on terror). The most recent Republican president of the United States was George Walker Bush from Texas. ...