Furthermore, during George's lifetime his nearest relations his son-in-law Philip of Hesse, and his brother Heinrich, joined the Reformers.

Thus, instead of expecting a single Antichrist to rule the earth during a future Tribulation period, Martin Luther, John Calvin and the other Protestant Reformers saw the Antichrist as a present feature in the world of their time, fulfilled in the papacy.

Reformers tabled constitutional amendments in 1828, 1829 and 1855, with the issues finally reaching a head during the 1890s and 1900s.

The description almost immediately appears to be describing the persecution of Reformers and Protestant or pre-Protestant groups of people who suffered persecution and execution before, during, and after the Middle Ages, and this view seems to have been held by Bruce R. McConkie in his first edition of Mormon Doctrine.

Unfortunately for Mackenzie and the Reformers, the mood of Upper Canada had changed somewhat from 1828 for a number of reasons: Sir John Colborne, who replaced Sir Peregrine Maitland as lieutenant governor in 1828, was less allied with John Strachan and the Family Compact ; Colborne had encouraged immigration to Upper Canada from the British Isles, and these new settlers felt more loyalty to the home country than Upper Canadians born in the New World ; and the Reform party had seemed to accomplish little during the two years they had controlled the Assembly.

Reformers, especially the " Mugwumps " complained that powerful parties made for corruption during the Gilded Age or " Third Party System ".

The Five solae are five Latin phrases that emerged during the Protestant Reformation and summarize the Reformers ' basic theological beliefs in contradistinction to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church of the day.

This paper was known for its sharp political wit and generally supported Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine's French Canadian Reformers during its early years.

To Reformers, these events served as evidence that Liberals and Progressive Conservatives consistently favoured Eastern Canada at the expense of Western Canada.

Western Canadians who had voted in protest for the Reform Party in 1993 due to their dismay with the Progressive Conservatives still remained frustrated with the party, and the Reformers remained the dominant conservative political force in the west.

Many Reformers argued that the Reform Party could influence the Progressive Conservative Party's social policies in a similar manner by forcing the PCs to adopt more right-wing solutions in order to obtain support from Western Reform MPs in future minority PC governments.

The latter party was a successor to Reform, and emerged from the efforts of Reformers to merge with Blue Tory elements in the Progressive Conservative Party who were opposed to Clark's Red Tory leadership.

Urban Bosses, Machines and Progressive Reformers.

The Gentle Reformers: Massachusetts Democrats in the Cleveland Era.

That made the city's population easily influenced by later ideas of the Reformers.

A faction left and formed the free-market movement, Liberal Reformers ( Riformatori Liberali ), which became a small faction within Forza Italia and later The People of Freedom.

The Democratic Alliance ( Portuguese: Aliança Democrática or AD ) was a coalition in Portugal between the Social Democratic Party ( Portuguese: Partido Social Democrata or PSD ), the Democratic and Social Center ( Portuguese: Centro Democrático Social or CDS ) and the People's Monarchist Party ( Portuguese: Partido Popular Monárquico or PPM ), including also a group of dissidents of the rightwing of the Socialist Party which were disappointed by the previous Soares government, called The Reformers ( Os Reformadores ), including José Medeiros Ferreira ( who would later rejoin the PS ), António Barreto ( who remained a more or less centre / rightwing aligned independent ) and Francisco Sousa Tavares ( who joined the Social Democratic Party afterwards ).

He thus had no role when Liberal Reform merged with Holman's pro-conscription Laborites a few months later to form the New South Wales branch of the Nationalist Party of Australia, though the new party was dominated by Liberal Reformers.

Reformers, swayed by the ideas of Zwingli, carried out acts of iconoclasm and banned imagery in churches.

At the general election which followed, the Governor General was sustained by a narrow majority, but in 1848 the Reformers were again returned to power, and he and Lafontaine formed their second administration on March 11 under Lord Elgin and carried numerous important reforms, including the freeing from sectarian control of the University of Toronto and the introduction into Upper Canada of an important municipal system.

He was elected to the city council from St. Patrick's Ward, which he carried by some 40 votes, and served as a member of the central committee established in 1859 by the Reformers in Canada West.

Reformers were led by Democratic Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who favored modification ( but ultimately voted for the defense authorization bill with the gay ban language ), and Barry Goldwater, a former Republican Senator and a retired Major General, who argued on behalf of allowing service by open gays and lesbians.

After returning to Basel, Servetus published Two Books of Dialogues on the Trinity () which caused a sensation among Reformers and Catholics alike.

He urged on the Emperor the need to enforce the Edict of Worms, and at several diets was prominent among the enemies of the Reformers.

However, the Reformers believed some tradition to be very seriously in conflict with the Scriptures: especially, with regard to teaching about the Church itself, but also touching on basic principles of the Gospel.

For the Reformers, the culmination of this gradual corruption was typified, in a concentrated way, in the office of the Pope who took on ancient titles such as Pontifex Maximus and supreme power in the church, which they characterized in its final form as being an usurpatious throne of Satanic authority set up in pretense of ruling over the Kingdom of God.

* Quick, Essays on Educational Reformers ( London, 1890 )

In 1851, Booth joined the Reformers ( Methodist Reform Church ), and on 10 April 1852, his 23rd birthday, he left pawnbroking and became a full-time preacher at their headquarters at Binfield Chapel in Clapham.

Reform's early policy proposals for immigration were seen as highly controversial in Canada including a policy pamphlet called Blue Sheet that was issued in mid-1991 stating that Reformers opposed " any immigration based on race or creed or designed to radically or suddenly alter the ethnic makeup of Canada ".

Preston Manning denied that he and most Reformers based their policies on intolerant views, but admitted that the Reform Party's populism had in inadvertent effect of drawing in some intolerant people whom Manning claimed he had always sought to keep out of the Reform Party.

The Tories and the Reformers fielded candidates for Toronto's first municipal election, held on March 27, 1834, with the Reformers winning a majority on the Toronto City Council.

Rather, Mackenzie's management style provoked frequent quarrels on the City Council, and by summer 1834, it was apparent that the Reformers would be able to accomplish nothing in the municipal government.

In the run-up to the July 1836 election for the 13th Parliament of Upper Canada, Head actively campaigned on behalf of the Tories against the Reformers, rallying the people behind the cause of loyalty to the British Empire.

) At a meeting on December 2 in Stoufferville, Mackenzie set forth his plan for rebellion in greatest detail: British troops occupied in Lower Canada would be unable to do anything as Reformers from the country marched on Toronto ; once there they would join up with Rolph, Morrison, and important men such as Peter Robinson, George Herchmer Markland, and John Henry Dunn ( who were not Reformers, but who had resigned from the Executive Council in protest of Lord John Russell's Ten Resolutions ).

Reformers who denounced the terrible effects of heavy consumption of alcohol on public disorder, health, and quality of work, made periodic attempts to control it in Mexico City in the late 18th century and early 19th century.

New opposition appeared in connection with the Protestant Reformation, not only on the part of the Reformers, but also among churchmen and others who remained in union with the see of Rome.

His sympathy for the Reformers associated with Zwingli in Switzerland and Bucer in Strasburg was intensified by the anger of the emperor at receiving from Philip a statement of Protestant tenets composed by the ex-Franciscan Lambert and the landgrave's failure to secure any common action on the part of the Protestant powers regarding the approaching Turkish war.

Reformers in the army began to write and lecture on the need to preserve and somehow institutionalize the military talent that had brought martial glory to Prussia.

Reformers in the Church of England accepted Protestant doctrine but the structure of the church ministry remained, and the Church alternated, for centuries, between sympathies for older traditions and radical Protestantism represented by the puritans, progressively forging a compromise between adherence to ancient tradition and Protestantism.

* 2002: The Union for a Popular Movement was founded, with the merge of Liberal Democracy and of the Radical Party, so that UMP includes many liberals: on one side those of the ⇒ Republican tradition ( re-grouped in various factions, open also to ex-RPR politicians: The Reformers Hervé Novelli and Gérard Longuet, the " Liberal Clubs " of Alain Madelin, " Liberal Generation " of Pierre Lellouche and the Free Right of Rachid Kaci ), on the other the Radicals and other social-liberals.

In the Province of Canada, responsible government was put to the test in 1849, when Reformers in the legislature passed the Rebellion Losses Bill.

" The ideal conception of the Church, which the Reformers opposed to the organization of the Roman Church, which was expressed in his Loci of 1535, lost for him after 1537 its former prominence, when he began to emphasize the conception of the true visible Church as it may be found among the Evangelicals.

Nevertheless, the real witch-hunting craze was yet to come and arrived with the Protestant Reformation when Salem-style witch trials began to proliferate in the " Reformed " areas of Europe, the Reformers sometimes borrowing from books like " Malleus " precisely because it had been condemned by the Catholic Church.

According to these Reformers, even as early as the Apostles a natural process of corruption began, and reached a crucial point of development when the Christian church was made the official religion of the Roman Empire by Theodosius I.

The dissolution resulted in few modifications to the practice of religion in England's parish churches ; in general the English religious reforms of the 1530s corresponded in few respects to the precepts of Protestant Reformers, and encountered much popular hostility when they did.

It was created when PEI was a British colony by Reformers who agitated for the system of responsible government.

Ministerial responsibility, the principal object of parliamentary struggles conducted by the Parti Canadien in Lower Canada and the Reformers in Upper Canada, becomes a reality in 1848, when Governor Lord Elgin agreed to let the leaders of the majority parties in Canada-East and the Canada-West, Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin, form their own Executive Council.

A riot ensued the next day when a victory parade by the Reformers was attacked by Orangemen carrying knives, sticks and firearms.