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- noun Plural form of
Whig . - proper noun An 18th- and 19th-century
political party inBritain , that was opposed to theTories , and became the Liberal Party.
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Examples
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August 7th, 2009 11: 10 am ET sigh ... the Party of No the GOP/Whigs is a lost cause.
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RICO GAGLIANO, host: Back in 2006, Rolling Stone called The Whigs - that's Whigs spelled with a W-H, as in the old time political party.
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Rolling Stone called The Whigs one of America's best unsigned bands, which meant they didn't stay unsigned for long.
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I think you could replace the word Whigs with Republicans and replace the words King George III with President Obama and it would describe early 21st Century US.
The Minority Report - pilgrim 2010
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I think you could replace the word Whigs with Republicans and replace the words King George III with President Obama and it would describe early 21st Century US.
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I tell them: Look back to 18th century England and see Tory-Conservatives and Liberal-Conservatives also called Whigs.
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From 1830 to 1886 the Liberals (the name the Whigs, Radicals and Peelites accepted as their political label after 1859) had been managed to become almost the party of permanent government with just a couple of Conservative interludes.
Daily Life in the British Parliament: Understanding the Political Parties | Edwardian Promenade 2008
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The Whigs were a natural outgrowth of the Federalist Party.
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The Whigs were the first political home of Abraham Lincoln.
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But then, Burke was the father of modern conservatism, and the Whigs were the classical liberal ancestors of contemporary libertarians.
Confusionism 2007
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