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En política, el término whig —del gaélico escocés 'cuatrero' [1] — fue una manera despectiva de referirse a los covenanters presbiterianos que marcharon desde el suroeste de Escocia sobre Edimburgo en 1648 en lo que se conoció como el Whiggamore Raid, usando los términos Whiggamore y Whig como apodos despectivos que designaban al Kirk Party (Partido de la Iglesia), facción ...
For state politics see Whig Party (United States) . The Whigs emerged in the 1830s in opposition to President Andrew Jackson, pulling together former members of the National Republican Party, the Anti-Masonic Party, and disaffected Democrats. The Whigs had some links to the defunct Federalist Party, but the Whig Party was not a direct successor ...
The Whigs were a political party in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Between the 1680s and the 1850s, the Whigs contested power with their rivals, the Tories. The Whigs merged into the Liberal Party with the Peelites and Radicals in the 1850s. Many Whigs left the Liberal Party in 1886 to form the Liberal Unionist Party, which merged into the ...
v. t. e. The Tories were a loosely organised political faction and later a political party, in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. They first emerged during the 1679 Exclusion Crisis, when they opposed Whig efforts to exclude James, Duke of York from the succession on the grounds of his Catholicism.
23 October 1842 [2] Viscount Melbourne 1834. The Duke of Wellington 1834. Sir Robert Peel 1834–35. Viscount Melbourne 1835–41. Sir Robert Peel 1841–46. VACANT Leader in Lords - The Marquess of Lansdowne. Leader in Commons - Lord John Russell. 23 October 1842.
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 later by opponents of the Whig Party itself, once it had come to dominate British politics following the Glorious Revolution .
