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Le parti whig désigne un parti politique apparu au XVIIe siècle en Angleterre qui, à compter de la fin du XVIIe siècle, milita en faveur d'un parlement fort en s'opposant à l' absolutisme royal. Il s'opposait à la mouvance Tory de l'époque. Le terme, apparu au XVIIe siècle, désigne à l'origine un brigand écossais 1 .
The Whig Party was a political party that existed in the United States during the mid-19th century. [13] Alongside the slightly larger Democratic Party, it was one of the two major parties in the United States between the late 1830s and the early 1850s as part of the Second Party System. [14] Four presidents ( William Henry Harrison, John Tyler ...
The original Country Party was a faction which opposed absolute monarchism and favoured exclusionism . In the late 1670s, the term "whiggamor", shortened to "Whig", started being applied to the party – first as a pejorative term, then adopted and taken up by the party itself. The name "Country Party" was thus discarded – to be taken up ...
John Harris (1703–1768) Jacob Astley, 16th Baron Hastings. Sir William Hayter, 1st Baronet. Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet. Sir Robert Heron, 2nd Baronet. Charles Hindley (politician) Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk. James Howard (Whig politician) Philip Howard (1669–1711)
Foxite was a late 18th-century British political label for Whig followers of Charles James Fox . Fox was the generally acknowledged leader of a faction of the Whigs from 1784 to his death in 1806. The group had developed from successive earlier factions, known as the "Old Corps Whigs" (led by the Duke of Newcastle in the 1750s and early 1760s ...
Removed the following line from the description of the Whig Party: (now the Liberal Democrats) . Liberal Democrats have nothing to do with the Whig Party. I think the term "whig" actually originates in the English Civil War period of the 1640s-50s, when it was used to refer to a radical faction of the Scottish Covenanters who called themselves the "Kirk party".
Rockingham Whigs. The Rockingham Whigs (or Rockinghamites) in 18th-century British politics were a faction of the Whigs led by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, from about 1762 until his death in 1782. The Rockingham Whigs briefly held power from 1765 to 1766 and again in 1782, and otherwise were usually in opposition to the ...
