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Whigs (British political party) 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.
- 1859; 164 years ago
- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
- 1678; 345 years ago
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 party is led by Waleed Ghani, who launched it in October 2014. It is based on Whiggism, the ideology of the former Whigs. History.
- October 2014; 8 years ago
- Centre
- Waleed Ghani
Whig (ou whigs) é uma expressão de origem popular que se tornou termo corrente para designar o partido liberal no Reino Unido. Esta corrente liberal contribuiu para a formação do atual Partido Liberal Democrata — Liberal Democrats. Também está, embora não de forma exclusiva, na vertente do Partido Trabalhista — Labour Party.
Whiggism is a political philosophy that grew out of the Parliamentarian faction in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639–1651). The Whigs advocated the supremacy of Parliament (as opposed to that of the king), tolerance of Protestant dissenters , and opposition to a " Papist " ( Roman Catholic ) on the throne, especially James II or ...
Whig—whatever its origin in Scottish Gaelic—was a term applied to horse thieves and, later, to Scottish Presbyterians; it connoted nonconformity and rebellion and was applied to those who claimed the power of excluding the heir from the throne.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Original Country Party. 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.
Most of these loose associations of politicians, after the disappearance of almost any party bonds by about 1760 and the accession of George III, contained members from both Whig and Tory traditions. In the first decade of the 19th century most politicians realigned themselves into fairly cohesive Whig and Tory parties.