The Whig as a political movement was interesting in one is led to believe that the British nationals were completely against Americans inf 1776, and yet there were Whigs in the purest form who would not take up arms against Americans nor fight them.
One of the greatest Admirals, simply refused to fight Americans and was restationed to Europe where it was quite in his forte to lob cannon shells at the French.
John Adams was considered a Whig.
A Whig was a reformist, yet not as insane as a liberal or radical as they were termed, but not of the noble bent that the Tory was. They occupied an interesting niche of the gentry and nobleman in being not of one and not of the other in the commoner.
In the best reality, they were nationalists and federalists, and why the American political parties started out as Federalists and "Republicans" (Republican meaning at that time mob rule).
With Jefferson destroying John Adams and his machinations with James Madison, murdering Alexander Hamilton by the hand of Aaron Burr, the political movements in America became the Whigs and the Democrats.
It would not be until Lincoln's time that the Whigs would transform into a new political union of the Grand Olde Party, or Republicans.
In England, the Whig's last great hurrah, was in the 1886 overthrow of the Gladstone liberal government of her majesty, Queen Victoria. They joined with the Tories or Conservatives at that time, and produced 20 years of Tory rule, with the alternatives being the Labor Liberals, the Radicals under Chamberlain, or the Irish Nationals under Parnell.
One never hears of Whigs any longer as their place in the caste sort of vanished, as there really was not a gentry in the world seeking to reform for the commoners, as the right and left pretty much undertook social suffrage and rights, which left the Whig holding the land they stood upon, but no real issues to transform them into a political movement.
The Whigs though helped America a great deal. If their voice had prevailed, there never would have been a war with America, and 1776 would have witnessed a home rule for the Americans in a quasi self governance which bowed to King George.
In modern politics, it would seem a need for Whig movement, in property owners standing up for their rights and the need for the abolition of the welfare state which is nothing but robbery and bribery now. These are the platforms of the Continentalist Party, which is my political movement, but as I refuse to have it arrested by the feudalcrats, it will remain a clarion voice in warning of the evils of what is the modern feudalcrat which has hijacked the Republican, democrat, Tory and labor movements around the world.
How far has the world fallen that once social justice meant no child labor and now it has moved in leftists to the confiscation of children from their parents by the state for their rape by perverts coming out of the homosexual movement of self sodomite destruction.
The world would be a much better condition of all peoples having property for their self validation and not just a matter of it residing now in the hands of the wealthy few. The Whig was of that era which translated Norman mindset of people being cloth of the field, to the reform that all people had rights and were equal under the same law.
nuff said
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