party principle

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But the draft does not specify such, and party leaders here said the issue is too granular to be addressed in what is intended to be a broad statement of party principle.

From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2012

I have read your platform and its declarations of party principle and find them such as I can heartily approve.

From Time Magazine Archive

They would have been acting on party principle, since the Davis-Bacon Act was a pro-labor measure originally passed under Republican auspices.

From Time Magazine Archive

Where party principle is involved, I will be found to be a Republican, but in all other respects I hope to be able to act free from party bias.

From Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Keifer, Joseph Warren

Caring little for party principle, he made a close alliance with the new business that continually needed new laws,—building laws, transportation laws, terminal rights, or franchises.

From The New Nation by Dodd, William E.