Whig
Pre-Republican American party
Whig names two distinct political movements.
In Britain, the Whigs opposed absolute monarchy and supported parliamentary supremacy from the late 17th century until evolving into the Liberal Party in the mid-19th.
In America, the Whig Party (1834–1854) opposed Jacksonian Democrats and favored economic modernization; it produced presidents Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, and Fillmore before collapsing over slavery.
Both parties took their name from Scottish rebels—originally a term of abuse.
As an adjective, Whig describes these parties or their policies: Whig principles, the Whig interpretation of history.
British right-wing partisan
- RockinghamHistoric English pottery brand
- coalitionTemporary alliance for action
- oppositionActive resistance or dissent
- PortlandMajor Oregon city
Burke · Russell · Gladstone · Melbourne · Grey · Walpole · faction · patronage
Governance bound by fundamental laws
- libertyAbsence of unjust constraint
- toleranceWillingness to accept difference
- parliamentaryOf a legislature
- LockeEnglish empiricist philosopher's surname
progress · Glorious Revolution · Protestant · succession · limited monarchy · civil liberties · consent · rights
Personal name designation
- WebsterDictionary brand namesake
- HarrisonCertain presidential surname
- TaylorSeamster-derived name
- ScottName of Scottish origin
Fillmore · Cotton · tariff · bank · nativist · Lincoln · Greeley · Weed
Philosophy advocating societal reform
- ActonTown west of London
- teleologicalConcerning ultimate purpose
- presentismBias toward current era
- triumphalistExcessive celebration of victory
Butterfield · liberalism · inevitability · continuity · parliamentarism · constitutionalist · Stubbs · Freeman
Tory
British right-wing partisan
- RockinghamHistoric English pottery brand
- coalitionTemporary alliance for action
- oppositionActive resistance or dissent
Portland · Burke · Russell · Gladstone · Melbourne · Grey · Walpole · faction · patronage · ascendancy
constitutionalism
Governance bound by fundamental laws
- libertyAbsence of unjust constraint
- toleranceWillingness to accept difference
- parliamentaryOf a legislature
Locke · progress · Glorious Revolution · Protestant · succession · limited monarchy · civil liberties · consent · rights · representation
Clay
Personal name designation
Scott · Fillmore · Cotton · tariff · bank · nativist · Lincoln · Greeley · Weed · Tippecanoe
progressivism
Philosophy advocating societal reform
- ActonTown west of London
- teleologicalConcerning ultimate purpose
- presentismBias toward current era
Butterfield · triumphalist · liberalism · inevitability · continuity · parliamentarism · constitutionalist · Stubbs · Freeman · narrative
- British PoliticsHouse of Commons, Westminster, Tories, Commons, peers
- 18th CenturyQueen Anne, Peter the Great, Handel, Bach, Treaty of Utrecht
- Georgian EraGeorge III, Georgian architecture, Regency, Jane Austen, Adam style
- political labelsliberal, conservative, leftist, rightist, moderate
- political typesconservative, liberal, moderate, leftist, rightist
- Restoration Englandroyal succession, succession crisis, Duke of York, royal mistresses, Tories