Reagan used to be a Democrat......and he evolved.
He left about the time it became clear that the Democrats were the party of civil rights.
ROFLMNAO!
"Civil Rights"...
As IF there is such a thing.
(The Reader should know that "Civil Rights" are the pretense of rights. The Phrase was developed by the Ideological Left in the 1960s, )
The phrase "civil rights" is a translation of Latin
ius civis (rights of a citizen). Roman citizens could be either free (
libertas) or servile (
servitus), but they all had rights in law.
[5] After the
Edict of Milan in 313, these rights included the freedom of religion.
[6] Roman legal doctrine was lost during the Middle Ages, but claims of universal rights could still be made based on religious doctrine. According to the leaders of
Kett's Rebellion (1549), "all bond men may be made free, for God made all free with his precious blood-shedding."
[7]
In the 17th century,
English common law judge Sir
Edward Coke revived the idea of rights based on citizenship by arguing that Englishmen had historically enjoyed such rights. The
Parliament of England adopted the
English Bill of Rights in 1689. The
Virginia Declaration of Rights, by
George Mason and
James Madison, was adopted in 1776. The Virginia declaration is the direct ancestor and model for the
U.S. Bill of Rights (1789).
In early 19th century Britain, the phrase "civil rights" most commonly referred to the issue of legal discrimination against Catholics. In the
House of Commons support for the British civil rights movement was divided, many more well-known politicians supported the discrimination towards Catholics. Independent MPs (such as Lewis Eves and Matthew Mountford) applied pressure for
Catholic emancipation on the larger political parties. This process culminated in the
Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 which restored the civil rights of Catholics.
