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Political organization founded, 1841, by a state convention in Louisiana. Its principles were the proscription of those who professed the Catholic faith, and the exclusion of foreign-born citizens from all offices of trust and emolument in the government, whether federal, state, or municipal. It became merged in Know-nothingism.