
	Where results make sense

Topic: Whig Party (UK)

Related Topics

Whig

Politics of England

Politics of the United Kingdom

United Kingdom general election, 1945

Whig history

Australian electoral system

Corn Laws

Politics of Australia

Anne I of the United Kingdom

Preferential voting

United Kingdom general elections

First past the post

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Westminster System

English Civil War

	Whig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While the Whigs (along with the Tories) are often described as one of the two political parties in late 17th to mid 19th century Great Britain, it is more accurate to describe them as loose political groupings or tendencies.
		The Whigs were those who supported the exclusion of James II and VII from the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland (the "Petitioners") and the Tories were those who opposed it (the Abhorrers).
		The Whig view led to serious distortions in later views of 17th century history, as Macaulay and his followers attempted to fit the complex factional politics of the Restoration into the neat categories of early 19th century political divisions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whig_Party_(UK) (1421 words)

	Liberal Party (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats.
		The Whigs were in favour of reducing the power of the Crown and increasing the power of the Parliament, and although their motives in this were originally to gain more power for themselves, the more idealistic Whigs gradually came to support an expansion of democracy for its own sake.
		In the years after Grey's retirement the party was led first by Lord Melbourne, a fairly traditional Whig, and then by Lord John Russell, the son of a Duke but a crusading radical, and Lord Palmerston, a renegade Irish Tory and essentially a conservative, although capable of radical gestures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK) (3897 words)

	Wikipedia free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Whigs (initially an insult â” whiggamore, a cattle driver) were those who supported the exclusion of James VII and II from the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland (the "Petitioners"), and the Tories (from the Irish term tÃ³raidhe, modern Irish tÃ³raÃ â” outlaw, robber) were those who opposed it (the Abhorrers).
		George I, who had already formed a Whig ministry upon his accession in 1714, dismissed the remaining Tories from office and as a party they were confined to the wilderness for half a century, though occasionally individual Tories held office in the Whig ministries of George I and George II.
		Stephen Harper, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, regularly refers to himself as a Tory and has suggested that the new party is a natural evolution of the conservative political movement in Canada.
	wikipedia.paellaman.com /encyclopedia.php?title=Tory_Party (1286 words)

	Whig Party
		The Whig Party was established in 1834 by politicians opposed to the "executive tyranny of Andrew Jackson.
		The party was named after to the Whig Party in the House of Commons that at the time was advocating democratic reforms in Britain.
		In 1840 the party's presidential candidate, was William Henry Harrison.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAwhig.htm (233 words)

	TORY FACTS AND INFORMATION
		The Whig s (initially an insult — whiggamore, a cattle driver) were those who supported the exclusion of James VII and II from the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland (the "Petitioners"), and the Tories (from the Irish term ''tÃ³raidhe'', modern Irish ''tÃ³raÃ'' — outlaw, robber) were those who opposed it (the Abhorrers).
		This was re-enforced by the breakup of the Whig party in 1794 when the conservative group led by the Duke of Portland joined Pitt's government - leaving an opposition rump lead by Charles_James_Fox.
		Stephen_Harper, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, regularly refers to himself as a Tory and has suggested that the new party is a natural evolution of the conservative political movement in Canada.
	www.bellabuds.com /index.php?s=tory (1228 words)

	Whig Party (USA)
		In the USA, political party formed in 1832 to oppose the autocratic presidency of Andrew Jackson.
		The party diverged over the issue of slavery: the northern Whigs joined the Republican party and the southern or ‘Cotton’ Whigs joined the Democrats.
		The title was taken from the British Whig Party, which supported Parliament against the king.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0007131.html (150 words)

	Whig Party (UK)
		In the UK, predecessor of the Liberal Party.
		The name was first used of rebel Covenanters and then of those who wished to exclude James II from the English succession (as a Roman Catholic).
		During the French Revolution, the Whigs demanded parliamentary reform in Britain, and from the passing of the Reform Bill in 1832 became increasingly known as Liberals.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0009116.html (166 words)

	Whig - TheBestLinks.com - Whigs, Abhorrers, Liberal Democrats (UK), Church of England, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Whig - TheBestLinks.com - Whigs, Abhorrers, Liberal Democrats (UK), Church of England,...
		Whigs, Whig, Abhorrers, Liberal Democrats (UK), Church of England, England...
		The term Whig originates from the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1678 - 1681 - the Whigs were those who supported the exclusion of James VII and II from the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland (the "Petitioners") and the Tories were those who opposed it (the Abhorrers).
	www.thebestlinks.com /Whigs.html (573 words)

	Whig Party - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
		Whig party, one of the two major political parties of the United States in the second quarter of the 19th cent.
		This move temporarily prevented a division of the party, and although Taylor died while Clay was formulating the Compromise of 1850 in Congress, Millard Fillmore
		In New England a bitter struggle developed between antislavery Conscience Whigs and proslavery Cotton Whigs, in other places between lower law Whigs and higher law Whigs (the term higher law had originated from a famous speech by William H. Seward, who declared that there was a higher law than the Constitution).
	www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/search/search.php?word=Whigpart (861 words)

	Democratic Party
		The Republican Party was established at Ripon, Wisconsin in 1854 by a group of former members of the Whig Party and the Free-Soil Party.
		The party's first presidential candidate was John C. Fremont in 1856 who won 1,335,264 votes but was defeated by the Democrat, James Buchanan.
		In his cartoons the Democratic Party was a donkey and the Republican Party, an elephant.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAdemocratic.htm (1417 words)

	Britannia Government: Prime Ministers - Glossary of Terms
		Whig Party - UK politcal party that was in power from 1714-60.
		Tory Party - UK politcal party (1680-1830) that was the antecedant of the Conservative Party.
		Labour was recognized as the official opposition party in 1922 and has been a factor in minority governments and elections ever since.
	www.britannia.com /gov/primes/defcon.html (278 words)

	RED GROUPS OF THE UK
		However, a large number of Green Party activists who hoped to grow the party were disappointed to see the advancement of another political party, the Liberal Democratic Party.
		The Liberal Democratic Party is the third largest party in the UK, with currently 52 seats in the House of Commons.
		Socialist Party of Great Britain : Founded in 1904, the Socialist Party of GB is one of the oldest political parties in the UK, even older than the Labour Party.
	reds.linefeed.org /ukgroups.html (3242 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The political home of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, and the young Abraham Lincoln, the American Whig Party was involved at every level of American politics-local, state, and federal-in the years before the Civil War, and controlled the White House for eight of the twenty-two years that it existed.
		In Michael Holt's hands, the history of the Whig Party becomes a political history of the United States during the tumultuous Antebellum period.
		Indeed, the Whig Party emerges as the nation's last great hope to prevent secession and civil war.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0195161041 (624 words)

	The Whigs
		In the late17th century the term Whig was used to describe those opposed to the religious policies of Charles II.
		By the 19th century their rivals in Parliament, the Tories, were the supporters of the established church and the traditional political structure.
		The Whigs, in contrast to the Tories, favoured reform.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Pwhigs.htm (147 words)

	Whigs
		Rockingham Whigs The Rockingham Whigs or Rockinghamite Whigs in Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, wh...
		The Afghan Whigs The Afghan Whigs were an American covers album, Uptown Avondale.
		Whigs Uk Whigs (UK) This article is about the British Whig party.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/whigs.html (69 words)

	the death of the whig party Free Essays
		The British two party system begins with the struggle for parliamentary supremacy between Whig and Tory during the period 1670 to 1714.
		For the remainder of the 18th century the conflict lay between Whig and Whig.
		Stolen Party The short story “The Stolen Party”, written by Liliana Heker, was a story about class differences between people viewed through the eyes of a young girl.
	www.netessays.net /search/38470.html (845 words)

	Liberal Party (UK) - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the years after Grey's retirement the party was led first by Lord Melbourne, a fairly traditional Whig, and then by Lord John Russell, the son of an Earl but a crusading radical, and Lord Palmerston, a renegade Irish Tory and essentially a conservative, although capable of radical gestures.
		In 1906 Campbell-Bannerman, rallying the party to the defence of free trade, led the Liberals to the greatest election victory in their history (this was the last time the Liberals won a majority in their own right).
		An additional problem was competition in the Liberal heartlands in Scotland and Wales from the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru.
	www.free-definition.com /Liberal-Party-(UK).html (3211 words)

	Whig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Later it was applied to those who opposed, on religious grounds the succession of the Roman Catholic James, Duke of York, to the throne of England.
		The Whigs, though their leadership was aristocratic, were also the party of the new financial and mercantile interests.
		Between 1760 and 1800 the party, which had become increasingly corrupt and dependent upon political patronage, disintegrated into a number of smaller groups, and would not return to power until 1830.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/terrace/adw03/peel/politics/whig.htm (515 words)

	Liberal Party Leader
		History: The Liberal Party, the successor to the Whig Party, was formed on 6 June 1859, when Whigs, Peelites and Radicals met at Willis's Rooms in St....
		Liberal Party was decentralised; the local parties controlled the process of candidate selection, and also afforded their members a direct vote in the election of the party leader...
		Former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe is accused in court of plotting to kill his former homosexual lover.
	www.jobs-london-uk.co.uk /londonjobs/liberal_party_leader.html (599 words)

	whig party manifesto inaugural meeting and candidates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Political background: party involvement in several general elections and formation of the Whig Party in the UK
		The work of a prospective MP is all about recognising that you have a role to play and how to go about it as soon as the opportunity arises before the next election.
		And mindful of the innocence of doves and the cross of salvation as much as the Party's proposed Emblem - the wisdom of serpents and the sword of the spirit.
	users.tpg.com.au /oceancra/whig/news.htm (240 words)

	hen party game idea - About hen party game idea
		to District 5 voters, accusing the Republican Party of being unfair to certain candidates in the...
		A corporate party is a party that has its idea as any company does...
		Clay led the Whig Party which coalesced against the power of Andrew...
	directory.hen-stagpartyshop.co.uk /henpartygameidea (1352 words)

	Political Studies Association
		Election Manifestos - from 1945 for the three main parties.
		UK General Election Information - links to sites with a Christian perspective.
		UK General Election 2001 - official results and publications from the Electoral Commission
	www.psa.ac.uk /WWW/elections_UKAll.asp (213 words)

	WHIG Books - Read Reviews & Compare Prices at DealTime.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Whig Loyalism: An Aspect of Political Ideology in the American Revolutionary Era
		True Whigs and Honest Tories : V. The Unraveling of Empire: A Green Interpretation of the Coming of the American Revolution
		Whigs and Liberals: Continuity and Change in English Political Thought
	www.dealtime.co.uk /xMP-Books~keyword-WHIG~VT-63715~kworg-WHIGS~linkin_id-3055660~DMT-5~VK- (147 words)

	By What Authority - Fall 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Formed as a radical wing of the Democratic Party in 1835 in New York City, the "Locofocos," who took their name from a popular brand of self-igniting matches of the day, were political firebrands "opposed to state banks, monopolies, paper money, tariffs, and financial policies that seemed to them anti-democratic and conducive to special privilege."
		Times were favorable for a radical reforming party and the term "radicalism" itself was a political asset.
		The worker-dominated Ohio People's Party platform called for the initiative and referendum, eight-hour day, employer liability for work-related injuries, municipal ownership of utilities and street railways, the elimination of private banks, prohibition of child labor, compulsory education, women's suffrage, abolition of alien land ownership, and national ownership of railroads, telegraphs, telephones, and mines.
	www.poclad.org /bwa/Winter03.htm (4952 words)

	Politics Law & Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is the cornerstone of democracy, and although we may not agree with peoples’ beliefs or views we surely must defend their right to have them.
		Below are links to the parties that go towards the make up of the Political landscape of this Country.
		Lists of known donations to political parties made by UK companies in the financial year 1995/96.
	www.cennet.co.uk /eshowcase/listings/23.html (506 words)

	central conservative london office party : Information On The Conservative Party Resources
		The Conservative and Unionist Party Conservative Central Office 32 Smith Square Westminster London SW1P...
		Conservative Central Office (CCO) is the headquarters of the British Conservative Party, housing its central staff...
		The Tribulations of a Quiet Man: Iain Duncan Smith and the He had won a reputation in the party for penetrating speeches from the backbenches, but he had never held government office and it was always...
	www.ryedaleconservatives.org.uk /ryedaleconservatives/central-conservative-london-office-party.html (177 words)

	Articles - Tory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Others simply use it as a shorthand for Conservative Party - for instance the domain points directly to the Conservative Party website (although it is not owned by the party).
		The fear of the Jacobins in France it could be argued helped to make the term 'Tory'; respectable once again - by contrast the Foxite Whigs were portrayed as revolutionary demons by cartoonists like James Gilray.
		Despite this, as late as 1812 the government still preferred to label themselves a &#39;Whig Administration' but very soon after the description 'Tory'; had come back into general use for Lord Liverpool 's government.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Tories (2335 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)