The New Departure refers to the political platform adopted after 1865 by the US Democratic Party, and the subsequently deployed strategy, in order to distance itself from its pro-slavery and Copperhead history, in an effort to broaden its political base and to focus on issues on which it had more of an advantage, especially economic ones.
The New Departure position argued that the Fourteenth Amendment and the Fifteenth Amendment had already given women suffrage, but that argument was rejected in state and federal courts.[1]
- ^ Katz, Elizabeth D. (30 July 2021). "Sex, Suffrage, and State Constitutional Law: Women's Legal Right to Hold Public Office". Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. Rochester, NY. SSRN 3896499. Retrieved 13 December 2024.