Talk:Blaine Amendment

Latest comment: 10 years ago by 207.245.236.150 in topic Current Political Impact

Current Political Impact

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It is also been a political attempt to lure the predominantly Democratic Roman Catholic vote to the Republican Party, an endavor which has shown significant progress in the 2002 and 2004 elections.

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Looks like an observation of the obvious to me.

207.245.236.150 (talk) 13:45, 15 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

Anti-Catholicism

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An edit by Gentgeen (talk · contribs) on 04:48, 15 May 2007 added this article to the Anti-Catholicism category.

The problem I have with this is that the article doesn't say that the Blaine Amendments were passed because of Anti-Catholic sentiment or anything of that nature. There is an indirect reference to it being Anti-Catholic. -- MicahDCochran 02:06, 7 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Article needs rework and NPOV adjustment

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For a much better treatment of the history and issues surrounding this movement see this link:

http://law.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1044&context=expresso&sei-redir=1#search=%22grant%20speech%20blaine%20amendment%22

First of all, the Blaine Amendments of today are fall back laws to Mr. Blaine's original federal amendment to the US Constitution. That needs description and inclusion. The politics of the day that animated this measure were virulently anti-Catholic. TMLutas (talk) 14:26, 4 July 2011 (UTC)Reply