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Whiggism
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Definition:A generalized belief system that emphasized innovation and liberty and was strongly held by about half of the leading families in England and Scotland, as well as most merchants, Dissenters and professionals.The opposing Tory position was held by the other great families, the Church of England, and most of the landed gentry and officers of the army and the navy.
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A half-century later, We guaranteed the right of woman suffrage in the Nineteenth Amendment, and during a still later civil-rights movement, We freed the federal election process from poll taxes and secured the vote for young adults in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-sixth Amendments, respectively. No amendment has ever cut back on prior voting rights or rights of equal inclusion. (If this be Whiggism, Americans should make the most of it.)
Akhil Reed Amar. America's Constitution: A Biography (2005)
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Vincent Hanna: And there you have it: victory for the Adder Party -- a sensational swing against the Whigs. I'll just try to get a final word from some of the candidates as they come up from the stage. Master William Pitt the Even Younger*, are you disappointed?
BBC. Blackadder, season 3: Dish and Dishonesty
*The Pitts were actually Tories, not Whigs.
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"[...] I shall inform against you: remember you are both suspicious characters since you took Peel's side about the Catholic Bill. I shall tell everybody that you are going to put up for Middlemarch on the Whig side when old Pinkerton resigns, and that Casaubon is going to help you in an underhand manner: going to bribe the voters with pamphlets, and throw open the public-houses to distribute them. Come, confess!"
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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he could not forbear taking me up in his right hand, and stroking me gently with the other, after a hearty fit of laughing, asked me, “whether I was a whig or tory?”
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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