Where Eagles Fly - the 1796 IH

[Dan the Man]

John Chevalier joins the Whig party.
EDIT: I'm also running for House of Representatives now instead of Senate.

[Prodigal]

I thought Senators were appointed back then, not elected....

[Dan the Man]

Yeah, I think Kaits is right!

[Prodigal]

I thought they were appointed by the state legislature... Am I wrong?

[Dan the Man]

Before the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, senators were elected by the individual state legislatures.[13] However, problems with repeated vacant seats due to the inability of a legislature to elect senators, intrastate political struggles, and even bribery and intimidation gradually led to a growing movement to amend the Constitution to allow for the direct election of senators.[14]

I think he's right...

[Watercress]

I'll form the anti-big gov and buinsess party, but i think a better name is in order.

[Barry Goldwater]

I thought Senators were appointed back then, not elected....

You'd be correct, but I thought for the sake of game fairness I'd let that one bit of history slide and have Senators face elections in 1796 as well.

[Prodigal]

Ah, sounds good then.

[Watercress]

Name: New America Party
Leader: To be elected by party members. (ME!)
Official colors: Red and White
Ideology: Economy and Trade, Immigration, Slavery
Biography: New America is a recently formed party, created by a coalition of southern conservative politicians and plantation owners, led by Frederick Eugune Denver. Many are Frederick's good colleagues and friends, bound togther both by ideology and friendship. The party was formed to offer a significant opposition to the Federalists and the Whigs, who's plans and programs angered many southerners. The Party are strictly conservative, believing that a protectionist policy on American trade will ensure the growth of the economy, and it's stability. On Immigration, they are opposed to allowing foreigners to enter and live in America, seeing that they will destabilize the government and cause ethnic tension. Finally, the are firmly against the growing anti--slavery movement- Slavery is both their and the nation's lifeblood, and cannot be removed, lest the nation descend into poverty and anarchy.

The name comes from the name of the Consertative party in the CSA from Victoria 2.

[Dave Strider]

I guess I'll try it out.


Name: (Colonel) Jonathan Thomasson
Party: Whig
Office: Representative
Age: 34
Date of Birth: June 1, 1761
Marital Status: Married
Children: Lucy(8, female), Jack(11, male), William(15, male)
Ethnicity: White
Home State: Virginia
Occupation: Colonel in the Virginia State Militia
Religious Views: Protestant
Biography: Born the son of a coal miner, Jonathan was a hard worker from birth. He once observed a british expedition into Indian territory and witnessed their brutality to the natives. He vowed to make them regret what they did. At age 16, he joined the Virginia State Militia. He fought in many battles in Washington's army and rose through the ranks quickly, getting to the rank of Colonel at age 20. He met his wife a year prior, on a short furlough. They were married and concieved William before he returned to duty.

Taxation - Necessary, but not too high.
Military - Firm standing army with large pool of Militiamen if needed.
The Economy & Trade - Allow foreign markets but watch them closely so they don't monopolise the market.
Foreign Policy - Alliances and Trade with the outside world may be useful in some cases, but a self-suffecient nation is a storng nation.
Immigration - We founded this country for freedom from oppression, we would contradict ourselves to not let immigration take place.
National Bank - Necessary.
Slavery - All men are created equal.

[saxdude]

Name: Henry Kaufmann
Party: WIP
Office: Senator
Age: 29
Date of Birth: July 10th of 1767
Marital Status: Single
Children: None
Ethnicity: White, German background
Home State: New York
Occupation: Senator, though he worked with his father in a carpenter shop, whom was an ex soldier of Prussia
Religious Views: Protestant, though rarely takes notice of religous events.
Biography: The story of Henry Kaufmann starts with his father Freidrich Kaufmann, a prussian soldier of the 7 years war. At the end of the war, Freidrich decided to leave his past and a turmoiled Europe behind him, as such, he sold all his property and fled for hoping for new life in the Americas. In his trip towards the american colonies he would fall for a lovely english woman, a teacher and would be wife, Elizabeth Clarke, with thoughts and dreams that would be influencial in Henry's life.
Henry himself was born in july of 1767, he didnt take part of the war of independance till late 1781, when he joined as a regular. He was raised under a strict military father and gained most of his political ideas from his mother, thus making him quite liberal (for the time), though his military upbringing makes his ideas colide at times. He has climbed his way up from the bottom and is now a young senator, he is extremely organized and quite hard working, though if given the chance can be very lazy. He can be quite emotionally devoid costing him some relationships and is most proud of his german heritage, his fathers old prussian uniform being one of his most prized possession, though he considers himself first and foremost American.

Taxation: Preferably low, though ackowledges there will be times it must go up.
Military: There should be a national army and it should be quite endorsed, a succesful nation cant defend itself with militia, though we must always have reserves.
The Economy & Trade: Anything that gears the US towards the future, free market should be allowed and commit to industrialization.
Foreign Policy: When it suits us we must act, otherwise our business is our own.
Immigration: All immigrants should be welcome, why deprive ourselves from workers to possibly the greatest minds of the world? If they want to be American, let them!
National Bank: nessesary at times, so nessesary always.
Slavery: I will support whatever I believe can make this country better, a black man can be work as good as a white man and i will not limit myself to trivialities such as skin color, so long as we benefit from it.

[Dan the Man]

How many members are we to have before we cap this? I forget.
Personally, I think we should have as many as we can get. No sense trying to have a congress with only eight members.

[Barry Goldwater]

How many members are we to have before we cap this? I forget.
Personally, I think we should have as many as we can get. No sense trying to have a congress with only eight members.

Indeed, there aren't any limits. Eight players is just the minimum

Also, we need more Representatives.

[Agamemnon]

Name: Nationalist Party
Leader: Appointed by current leader (currently: Connor Mac Athol)
Official colors: Dark Blue and Gold
Ideology: white supremacy but black freedom, large federal army, protectionism, all men part of militia
Biography: The Nationalist party is the military man's party. Founded by Connor Mac Athol, it is a party where all men are judged based upon a system of rank: ranks, in turn, are given out by the leader based upon the deeds of the members. For example, a man who was unremarkable but did his duy to his country well is more likely to lead the group next than a politician who managed to get into a high office, only to line his own pockets while there (in fact, the politician is then likely to be drummed out!).
This party seems to be the closest to a federalist party that there is, and I really don't want to make it any more like the federalist party (though the leader pf the group can PM me, and I will change the views of the group based on that PM). So, if you want to be federalist, be this or be independent!

[Watercress]

Then call it the warhawk party.

[Agamemnon]

Didn't sound cool enough, or intelligent enough (political things always have ridiculously overblown names).

[Prodigal]

Really? I think warhawks sounds pretty badass...

[Dave Strider]

It'd be copyright infringement as well, there'a already a WWII plane named after it

[Dan the Man]

But it was a political party too, so technically he's in the green, I think.
That, or the Air Force has filed lawsuits against every American history text book company out there.

[Dave Strider]

LOL.

And also at the time it was the Army Air Corps.