Between the 1680s and the 1850s, the Whigs contested power with their rivals, the Tories. The Whigs became the Liberal Party when the faction merged with the...
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The Whig Party is a political party in England which is intended to be a revival of the Whigs that existed in the United Kingdom from 1678 to 1868. The...
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Look up Whig in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Whig or Whigs may refer to: Whigs (British political party), one of two political parties in England,...
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administration. The Whig Party became badly split between pro-Compromise Whigs like Fillmore and Webster and anti-Compromise Whigs like William Seward...
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a loosely organised political faction and later a political party, in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom...
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the Whigs and the Tories. These were not political parties in the modern sense but somewhat loose alliances of interests and individuals. The Whigs included...
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This is a list of the Leaders of the British Whig Party. It begins in 1830 as, in the words of J C Sainty, 'it would be misleading to convey the impression...
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The Radical Whigs were a group of British political commentators associated with the British Whig faction who were at the forefront of the Radical movement...
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The True Whig Party (TWP), also known as the Liberian Whig Party (LWP), is the oldest political party in Liberia and Africa as a whole. Founded in 1869...
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The Whig Junto is the name given to a group of leading Whigs who were seen to direct the management of the Whig Party and often the government, during...
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The Rockingham Whigs (or Rockinghamites) in 18th-century British politics were a faction of the Whigs led by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of...
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The Whig government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that began in November 1830 and ended in November 1834 consisted of two ministries:...
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Vox Populi, Vox Dei (category Whigs (British political party))
most notorious instance of this tactic, borrowing its title from a radical Whig tract of 1709 to argue that by the Whigs' own principles of. ." v t e...
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anti-slavery Democrats and Whigs joined with members of the Liberty Party (an abolitionist political party) to form the new Free Soil Party. Running as the Free...
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slavery dominated the political landscape, and the Whigs, unable to agree on an approach to the issue, began to disintegrate. A few Whigs lingered, claiming...
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Second Melbourne ministry (redirect from Whig Government 1835-1841)
appointed by the Prime Minister. The young Queen was so attached to her Whig ladies of the bedchamber that after Melbourne's resignation in 1839, she...
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(1853–1857). This article covers the party in national politics. For state politics see Whig Party (United States). The Whigs emerged in the 1830s in opposition...
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Society of the Friends of the People (category Whigs (British political party))
an organisation in Great Britain that was focused on advocating for parliamentary reform. It was founded by the Whig Party in 1792. The Society in England...
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The Patriot Whigs, later the Patriot Party, were a group within the Whig Party in Great Britain from 1725 to 1803. The group was formed in opposition...
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William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (category Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies)
Affairs of British North America and to The British North America Act, 1840 which established a new political entity, the Province of Canada. The Whig cabinet...
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Clay helped form the Whig Party. The Democratic Party had a small yet decisive advantage over the Whigs until the 1850s when the Whigs fell apart over the...
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A two-party system is a political party system in which two major political parties consistently dominate the political landscape. At any point in time...
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Country Party was the name employed in the Kingdom of England (and later in Great Britain) by political movements which campaigned in opposition to the...
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North ministry (category Whigs (British political party))
ISBN 978-0-19-820142-7. Volo, James M. (19 July 2012). "Tories and Whigs". The Boston Tea Party: The Foundations of Revolution: The Foundations of Revolution...
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Thomas Scott (Bridport MP) (category Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies)
Thomas Scott (1723–1816) was an English politician who was Member of Parliament for Bridport from 1780 to 1790. "Bridport | History of Parliament Online"...
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controlled the most important political decisions. The Junto was reappointed twice following the elections of 1695 and 1698. The Whig elite rose to government...
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Whig and allied party leaders from 1801 to 1859. During the 19th century, the Whigs, Radicals and Peelites gradually evolved into the Liberal Party....
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Charles Molyneux, 1st Earl of Sefton (category Whig (British political party) MPs)
Earl of Sefton (11 October 1748 – 31 January 1795) was a Member of the British Parliament and a member of the peerage of Ireland. He was born on 11 October...
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American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the...
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Townshend ministry (redirect from Whig government 1714-16)
outmanoeuvred by his rival Whigs, who formed the first Stanhope-Sunderland ministry. This led to a split within the Whig party that lasted until 1720. Robert...
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