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  Liverpool Protestant Party
The Liverpool Protestant Party (LPP) were a minor political party operating in the city of Liverpool in North-West England.
Traditionally the "orange vote" would go to the Tories but in 1903, the LPP was formed as a distinct party by George Wise.
They won their last seat in 1973 but activity was waning and as the "orange vote" subsided in influence the LPP found it harder to continue.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/liverpool_protestant_party   (312 words)

  
 List of political parties in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
3.2 Parties with representation in the Scottish Parliament
3.3 Parties with representation in the Welsh Assembly
Parties with representation in the Northern Ireland Assembly
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 Liverpool - Historical Timeline
Liverpool is represented in Parliament by Francis Bacon, although he appears never to have mentioned Liverpool in his writings.
Liverpool is originally held for the King, In 1643 parliamentary troops under Colonel Assheton attacked, and after street fighting resulting in 30 dead, the Parliament took the town.
Entry into Liverpool was along the Prescot Road, which had become a turnpike and been improved in comparison with its former status as a 'packhorse route', in which form it would have been totally unusable by stagecoaches.
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 Pastor George Wise "Twice Imprisoned for the Gospel's Sake"
He was a member of the Liverpool School Board, being elected as a Protestant candidate at the top of the poll with a majority of 52,000 over his nearest opponent.
Though he came to Liverpool unknown, and without any influential backing, he became one of the most powerful and potential influences in the city, which no man had moved so profoundly as he.
Pastor George Wise successor at the Protestant Reformer's Memorial Church,was the Rev. H. Longbottom who later became the Lord Mayor of Liverpool and the Grand Master of the Loyal Orange Institution of England.
www.orangenet.org /liverpool/georgewise/georgewisepage7.htm   (788 words)

  
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Protests that grow out of events are coded separately; for example, a violent confrontation attendant to a rally or a demonstration that emerges from a religious rally would be coded separately from each rally.
Changes in organizational strength for dissidents and the regime result from reported defections or purges in the communist party, the integration of Solidarity rural organizations and the cooperation between the Church and Solidarity after martial law was imposed.
The maintenance of 20 million organizational strength for Solidarity during the period between martial law and the 1989 elections is justified by those elections as well as the symbols of support for Solidarity in the intervening years, e.g., the dissident masses in church.
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 WELLINGTON - LoveToKnow Article on WELLINGTON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He supported the repressive policy of Liverpool's cabinet, and organized the military forces held ready in case of a Radical rising.
Against this treaty Wellington protested, on the ground that it specified means of compulsion which were neither more nor less than measures of war.
It was now hoped by the so-called Protestant party that Wellington, at the head of a more united cabinet, would offer a steady resistance to Catholic emancipation.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WE/WELLINGTON.htm   (2253 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: England (Since the Reformation)
This declaration was sovereignly displeasing to all parties in the House of Commons, who answered it by a resolution "that penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended except by consent of Parliament", and refused supplies until the declaration was recalled.
Protestant Nonconformists were at that time striving to obtain a complete toleration, and held out the right hand of fellowship to Catholics.
In the eighteenth century a number of Protestant charity schools were founded, but it was not until the end of the first quarter of the nineteenth century that provision for elementary public instruction began to be recognized as a public duty.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/05445a.htm   (13379 words)

  
 BBC News | Latest News | Unionists branch out
The Northern Ireland-based party says it is making the move because of unprecedented interest in unionism from people in the city.
Liverpool DUP spokesman Phil Moffat said: "Since Tony Blair started to place Northern Ireland at the front of his political agenda, there has been an awful lot of interest in the DUP from people in Liverpool who are as eager to protect the union with Ulster as people in the province are.
At its height in the 1960s, the Protestant Party held several council seats in the city and even had a mayor drawn from its ranks.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/events/northern_ireland/latest_news/252627.stm   (324 words)

  
 Newman Reader - Present Position of Catholics - Lecture 5
Protestants, however, for the most part find it very pleasant to attack others, very irksome and annoying to defend themselves; they judge us by one rule, themselves by another; and they convict us of every sin under heaven for doing sometimes what they do every day.
Protestants have felt it right, just, and necessary, to break the holiest of earthly ties, and to inflict the acutest temporal suffering on those who have exercised their private judgment in the choice of a religion.
So far from the Protestant party feeling any real shock at this avowal, a little while after, a second clergyman, as influential in Manchester as the first mentioned is in Liverpool, repeated the sentiment; and still no shock or sensation in the Protestant public was the result.
www.newmanreader.org /works/england/lecture5.html   (8365 words)

  
 Newman Reader - Rheims & Douay Bible
An eighth edition, both text and notes, was published {410} in New York, in octavo, in 1834, by a Protestant party, which hoped to make use of it as a weapon in controversy against Catholics.
Next, we observe that, of the nine instances in which Challoner sides with the Douay against the Protestant, eight are cases of mere construction of the Latin Vulgate, not of diction, viz.
It is remarkable, however, that in one case, where the Rheims is with the Greek, he leaves it for the Protestant, which is not faithful to the Greek, viz.
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 Conservative
Peel was the leader of the Conservative Party from 1832 to 1846; he gave the party strong and effective leadership between 1832 and 1841.
Still, the cohesiveness of such a large party in opposition was a remarkable development, even though in 1851 Disraeli argued that Peel was not the real creator of the Conservative Party.
To Peel, the Conservative Party was primarily "a constitutional and religious party" and he never regarded maintaining the Corn Laws as sine qua non of Conservatism.
www.victorianweb.org /history/conservative.html   (1870 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: By the Waters of Liverpool: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
At the beginning of "By the Waters of Liverpool", we meet Helen as a 'gaunt smelly beanpole' of almost eighteen, earning a meagre ten shillings per week as a clerk for a charitable organization, and studying commercial subjects along with French and German at night school.
Liverpool is a city ripped apart by the enmity of Protestant for Catholic and Catholic for Protestant irrespective of whether the individuals or families concerned ever attend Mass or Divine Service but the religious divisions are far from straight cut.
Helen Forrester's prologue suggests she intended "By the Waters of Liverpool" to conclude an autobiographical series that is at once absorbing non-fiction and important primary source material for anyone studying the economic or social history of North West England.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/000636540X   (1444 words)

  
 Who is Sir Robert Peel?
The Tory party at this time was divided into two sections after the death of Lord Liverpool, the Ultras, who were strict Tories, and the Caningites, who were far more liberal.
Peel was an Ultra but as the head of the party it fell tto him to give in to Catholic Emancipation, which contrasted greatly with his 'orange peel' years, and led many Tories to view him as a traitor.
The Tory party became known by the less derogatory name of 'conservatives,' and there was a countrywide reorganisation that the Whigs, who were in porwer still, could not keep up with.
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 Horoscopes Of Our Time
The marriage aroused Protestant feelings and was the signal for an insurrection by Moray and a Scottish noble family who hoped to be joined by the whole Protestant party.
Although her father was a convert to Roman Catholicism, Mary was brought up as a Protestant and was married at the age of 15 to the Dutch Protestant prince William of Orange.
He won the party's presidential nomination after a grueling primary battle in 1984, but he and Geraldine A. Ferraro, his running mate, were resoundingly defeated by the incumbent, Ronald Reagan, in the general election.
www.angelfire.com /psy/horoscope/horoscopeK.html   (5212 words)

  
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The king and the nobility, however, strongly favored the Protestant party, and the former added his voice to the demand made by the second Synod of Petrikau (1555) that a national council be convened to settle the religious controversies.
The aggressor, an adherent of the Austrian party, refused to recognize the jurisdiction of a secular court, and was accordingly banished, while his prisoner was released.
At that time the rising party of radical Hellenism, which sought to supplant Mosaic Judaism by Greek manners and customs, was withstood by the coterie of the Hasideans, who determined to adhere with the utmost rigor to the Jewish law as the unconditional norm of life.
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They were stigmatized as having broken their parole, but they asserted that it was intended on that party to waylay and murder them, and that their only safety was in flight.
Large rewards were offered for their capture, alive or dead, but the necessities of both parties compelled a truce during the remainder of Sidney's official career-- which terminated in his resignation--about four years after the escape of the Desmonds from Dublin.
This party were under the command of O'Doherty, of Innishowen, and Nial Garve O'Donnell, the most distinguished soldier of his name, after his illustrious cousin and chief.
www.cise.ufl.edu /mirrors/gutenberg/etext04/phrl210.txt   (20500 words)

  
 The Covenanters by Brian Orr Part Seven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It is supposition that the execution party led by Robert Grierson of Lag and Major Winram still hoped the women would yield.
It is strange that the story of Margaret Wilson should again come to the fore with an article in the Liverpool Daily Post on February 24, 2000, reporting on a painting of her by Sir John Everett Millais, called the " Martyr of the Solway ".
On this occasion it was to tell that an X- ray examination of the painting revealed that originally it was of a partially-clad Margaret.
www.tartans.com /articles/cov7.html   (1369 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Archive Search
From the battered old streets of Walton, where house prices are collapsing and unemployment is rising once again, Tony Blair's vision of a meritocratic Britain spreading wealth and opportunity from the few to the many seems a world away.
Liberal Democrats, with an overwhelming majority on Liverpool city council, now have 11 of the 18 councillors in the constituency, including former Labour members who have crossed the floor.
With the constituency one of the poorest in the country, he spends his time addressing the parochial complaints of constituents from poor housing to high crime and the local economy.
www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4192439,00.html   (973 words)

  
 CAIN: Democratic Dialogue: Politics in Public - Freedom of Assembly and the right to Protest (Report No. 8)
However, in Liverpool members of the Orange Order meet with the police as early as February or March to discuss any problems that arose at the previous year's parade and any changes that might be needed.
In Liverpool many of the customary routes in the city are less populated than they would have been in the past and in Southport the main concerns are with the interests of tourists and local businesses.
In Liverpool the events seem to be less tense than in the past and any problems are more to do with crowd control, the use of alcohol and the interests of tourists and businesses.
cain.ulst.ac.uk /dd/report8/report8c.htm   (5334 words)

  
 General Election Results 1885-1979
Alliances Where several parties or individual candidates are in an electoral or political alliance they are grouped together.
In 1931, the Independent Labour Party was still officially part of the Labour Party but refused to accept the Standing Orders of the Parliamentary Labour Party; in addition, several Labour candidates were members of the ILP but sponsored by local parties.
Constitutionalists This label was used by a number of right-wing Liberals in the 1924 general election who wanted to distance themselves from the party’s temporary support for the Labour Government.
www.election.demon.co.uk /geresults.html   (687 words)

  
 Respect Unity Coalition
The Socialist Party took part in discussions with Respect during the first three months of this year but concluded that we were unable to join at that point as we had a number of disagreements with the approach Respect was taking, both on programme and democracy.
For the Socialist Party, however, the issue is not the vote as much as the means by which Respect achieved it.
The Socialist Party has long argued that New Labour today is another party of big-business, no different in essence to the Tories and the Liberal Democrats.
www.socialistparty.org.uk /respect.htm   (3102 words)

  
 Dominica (08/05)
In January 2000 elections, the Edison James United Workers Party (UWP) was defeated by the Dominican Labor Party (DLP), led by Roosevelt P. "Rosie" Douglas.
Nominated by the prime minister in consultation with the leader of the opposition party, the president is elected for a 5-year term by the parliament.
The president appoints as prime minister the leader of the majority party in the parliament and also appoints, on the prime minister's recommendation, members of the parliament from the ruling party as cabinet ministers.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2295.htm   (2599 words)

  
 The Project Gutenberg Etext of History of England from James II - CollegeTextbook.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The party of the White Rose survived the marriage of Richmond and Elizabeth.
Between them lay, during a considerable time, a middle party, which blended, very illogically, but by no means unnaturally, lessons learned in the nursery with the sermons of the modern evangelists, and, while clinging with fondness to all observances, yet detested abuses with which those observances were closely connected.
When it is considered that none of these prelates belonged to the extreme section of the Protestant party, it cannot be doubted that, if the general sense of that party had been followed.
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 A.1.2. WHAT ARE THE ORIGINS OF MUTUALIST ORGANIZATION?
The friendly society, in its many guises, was the genesis of the radical political party, the labor union, the cooperative, and the association for mutual aid.
This tradition of the union as a fraternal society and lodge survived into the rites and lore of the Knights of Labor.
Despite partial and periodic couner-currents like the Knights of Labor, syndicalist elements in the TUC, the IWW, and elements in the early CIO, the organized labor movement in the English-speaking world on the whole has largely abandoned direct action and self-organization, and instead hitched its wagon to the State.
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 A United Kingdom and Ireland Trip
It taught that religion was outdated and that the Catholic versus Protestant animosity was ridiculous.
And the Protestants' view of a tyrannical, over-bearing, and domineering Catholic Church was reinforced.
The Protestants were placed on the fast track for advancement in the military - the Catholics on the slow track or even derailed.
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 William Cobbett (1763-1835).
He is therefore tolerated by all parties, though he has made himself by turns obnoxious to all; and even those he abuses read him.
In 1812, with Perceval's assassination, Liverpool was to become the Prime Minister; he was to carry on in that capacity, as England's Prime Minister, until 1827 (he suffered a stroke which led shortly thereafter to his death).
In 1815, as is evidenced by your letter, Cobbett was after Liverpool in respect to his conduct of the War of 1812 (Cobbett did not just pick on Liverpool: he picked on every politician that came into his sights).
www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Cobbett.htm   (8586 words)

  
 Brief Account of Gothic Architecture and Revival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
To a good protestant of 1830 the least suggestion of symbolism---a cross on a gable or on a prayer book---was rank popery.
The clergyman wore a fl gown and read the communion service from his pulpit; no one knelt during the longer prayers, or stood when the choir entered; indeed, the choir, if it existed at all, was hidden in a gallery, where it performed to the accompaniment of violins and a 'cello.
The plaster vaults and iron columns of an earlier era were not to be admitted here, and much was made of the fact that these buildings were entirely of stone with no structural steelwork.
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