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Whigs (Breetish poleetical pairty)

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Whigs
Leader(s)
Foondit1678 (1678)
Dissolved6 Juin 1859 (1859-06-06)
Precedit biRoundheads
Merged intoLeeberal Pairty
IdeologyPairlamentarism
Leeberalism[1][2]
Clessical leeberalism[3]
Poleetical poseetionCentre-left[4][5][6]
ReleegionProtestantism[7]
(Catholic emancipation - from the end of 18th c.)[8]
Colours     Blue      Buff[9]      Orange

The Whigs war a poleetical faction an then a poleetical pairty in the pairlaments o Ingland, Scotland, Great Breetain, Ireland an the Unitit Kinrick.

References

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  1. ↑ Sykes, Alan (2014). Routlegde (ed.). The Whigs and the politics of Reform. The Rise and Fall of British Liberalism: 1776-1988.
  2. ↑ Leach, Robert (2015). Macmillan (ed.). Political Ideology in Britain. pp. 32–34.
  3. ↑ Lowe, Norman (2017). Macmillan (ed.). Mastering Modern British History. p. 72.
  4. ↑ Clark, Jonathan Charles Douglas (2000). English Society, 1660-1832: Religion, Ideology and Politics During the Ancien Régime. Cambridge University Press. p. 515.
  5. ↑ Hay, William (2004). The Whig Revival, 1808-1830. Springer. p. 177.
  6. ↑ Hazan, Reuven Y. (1998). Centre Parties: Polarization and Competition in European Parliamentary Democracies. A&C Black. p. 21.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ "Whigs and Tories". UK Parliament.
  9. ↑ Mitchell, Leslie (2007). The Whig World: 1760–1837. London: Hambledon Continuum. pp. 4, 13, 158–159.
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