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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 ...
- Partido Whig (Estados Unidos)
El Partido Whig de los Estados Unidos fue un partido...
- Partido Whig (Estados Unidos)
The Whig Party was a political party that existed in the United States during the mid-19th century. 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.
- 1856; 167 years ago
- Henry Clay
- 1833; 190 years ago
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The Whigs were originally referred to as the Country Party. The term Whig began as a short form of whiggamore, a term originally used by people in the north of England to refer to (cattle) drovers from western Scotland who came to Leith to buy corn (the Scottish cattle drivers would call out "Chuig" or "Chuig an bothar"—meaning "away" or "to the ro...
The parliamentarian faction
The precursor to the Whigs was Denzil Holles' parliamentarian faction, which was characterised by its opposition to absolute monarchism.
Exclusion Crisis
Under Lord Shaftesbury's leadership, the Whigs (also known as the Country Party) sought to exclude the Duke of York (who later became King James II) from the throne due to his Roman Catholicism, his favouring of monarchical absolutism, and his connections to France. They believed the heir presumptive, if allowed to inherit the throne, would endanger the Protestant religion, liberty and property. The first Exclusion Bill was supported by a substantial majority on its second reading in May 1679...
Glorious Revolution
After the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Queen Mary II and King William III governed with both Whigs and Tories, despite the fact that many of the Tories still supported the deposed Roman Catholic James II. William saw that the Tories were generally friendlier to royal authority than the Whigs and he employed both groups in his government. His early ministry was largely Tory, but gradually the government came to be dominated by the so-called Junto Whigs, a group of younger Whig politicians who...
18th century
Although William's successor Anne had considerable Tory sympathies and excluded the Junto Whigs from power, after a brief and unsuccessful experiment with an exclusively Tory government she generally continued William's policy of balancing the parties, supported by her moderate Tory ministers, the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Godolphin. However, as the War of the Spanish Succession went on and became less and less popular with the Tories, Marlborough and Godolphin were forced to rely more and...
19th century
Many of the Whigs who had joined with Pitt would eventually return to the fold, joining again with Fox in the Ministry of All the Talents following Pitt's death in 1806. The followers of Pitt—led until 1809 by Fox's old colleague the Duke of Portland—rejected the label of Tories and preferred to call themselves The Friends of Mr. Pitt. After the fall of the Talents ministry in 1807, the Foxite Whigs remained out of power for the better part of 25 years. The accession of Fox's old ally, the Pr...
The colours of the Whig Party (blue and buff, a yellow-brown colour named after buff leather) were particularly associated with Charles James Fox. Poet Robert Burnsin "Here's a health to them that's awa" wrote: "The British Whig March" for piano was written by Oscar Telgmann in Kingston, Ontario, c.1900. Punk band The Men That Will Not Be Blamed fo...
Primary sources
1. Eagles, Robin. The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke. General Editor Paul Langford. Volume IV: Party, Parliament, and the Dividing of the Whigs 1780–1794Edited by PJ Marshall and Donald C. Bryant. (Oxford University Press. 2015). xvi, 674 pp.
- 1859; 164 years ago
- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
- 1678; 345 years ago
19 de abr. de 2024 · Whig Party, in U.S. history, major political party active in the period 1834–54 that espoused a program of national development but foundered on the rising tide of sectional antagonism. The Whig Party was formally organized in 1834, bringing together a loose coalition of groups united in their opposition to what party members ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia encyclopedia. El término whig corresponde al antiguo nombre del Partido Liberal británico. Datos rápidos Whigs, Fundación ... Whigs. Caricatura de los Whigs por James Gillray (1783). Fundación. 1678.
The history of the United States Whig Party lasted from the establishment of the Whig Party early in President Andrew Jackson's second term (1833–1837) to the collapse of the party during the term of President Franklin Pierce (1853–1857). This article covers the party in national politics.
