Court party

Definition and stakes

Owen J. Roberts,  Grovey v. Townsend — Opinion of the Court

“ The state, as its highest tribunal holds, though it has guaranteed the liberty to organize political parties, may legislate for their governance when formed, and for the method whereby they may nominate candidates, but must do so with full recognition of the right of the party to exist, to define its membership, and to adopt such policies as to it shall seem wise. ”
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Portrait of Catharine Maria Sedgwick Catharine Maria Sedgwick,  A New England Tale (1822)

“ The organization of courts and the collection of debts, formed one of the principal grounds of discontent. The court-houses were attacked and their session sometimes prevented. The party in favour of the state government, and, of course, of the support of the laws, was commonly called the court party. An Englishman might smile at such an application of the term.
The insurrectionary spirit was very general throughout the commonwealth; and it might be said that the western counties were in the possession of the rebels against republicanism.
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