Whigs (Breetish poleetical pairty)
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The Whigs war a poleetical faction an then a poleetical pairty in the pairlaments o Ingland, Scotland, Great Breetain, Ireland an the Unitit Kinrick.
Whigs | |
|---|---|
| Leader(s) | |
| Foondit | 1678 |
| Dissolved | 6 Juin 1859 |
| Precedit bi | Roundheads |
| Merged into | Leeberal Pairty |
| Ideology | Pairlamentarism Leeberalism[1][2] Clessical leeberalism[3] |
| Poleetical poseetion | Centre-left[4][5][6] |
| Releegion | Protestantism[7] (Catholic emancipation - from the end of 18th c.)[8] |
| Colours | Blue Buff[9] Orange |
References
eedit- ↑ Sykes, Alan (2014). Routlegde (ed.). The Whigs and the politics of Reform. The Rise and Fall of British Liberalism: 1776-1988.
- ↑ Leach, Robert (2015). Macmillan (ed.). Political Ideology in Britain. pp. 32–34.
- ↑ Lowe, Norman (2017). Macmillan (ed.). Mastering Modern British History. p. 72.
- ↑ Clark, Jonathan Charles Douglas (2000). English Society, 1660-1832: Religion, Ideology and Politics During the Ancien Régime. Cambridge University Press. p. 515.
- ↑ Hay, William (2004). The Whig Revival, 1808-1830. Springer. p. 177.
- ↑ Hazan, Reuven Y. (1998). Centre Parties: Polarization and Competition in European Parliamentary Democracies. A&C Black. p. 21.
- ↑ Richard Brent (1987). The Whigs and Protestant Dissent in the Decade of Reform: The Case of Church Rates, 1833–1841. Oxford University Press. pp. 887–910.
- ↑ "Whigs and Tories". UK Parliament.
- ↑ Mitchell, Leslie (2007). The Whig World: 1760–1837. London: Hambledon Continuum. pp. 4, 13, 158–159.