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The Tories, who believed in the " Divine Right of Kings ", defended James ' hereditary claim.
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Colonists who supported the British in opposing the Revolution are usually referred to as " Loyalists " or " Tories ".
In it he ruthlessly satirised both the High church Tories and those Dissenters who hypocritically practised so-called " occasional conformity ", such as his Stoke Newington neighbour Sir Thomas Abney.
Some of the most influential leaders of the Tories united with members of the opposition Whigs and set out to resolve the crisis by inviting William of Orange to England, which the stadtholder, who feared an Anglo-French alliance, had indicated as a condition for a military intervention.
It was looking certain that the Tories would be re-elected, and the only key issue that the media were still speculating by the end of 1982 was whether it would be Labour or the Alliance who formed the next opposition.
After the British were defeated in the Thirteen Colonies, its troops helped evacuate approximately 30, 000 United Empire Loyalists ( American Tories ), who settled in Nova Scotia, with land grants by the Crown as some compensation for their losses.
Kinnock also blamed his defeat on the other newspapers who had backed the Tories in the run-up to the election.
Lord Elgin upheld the principles of responsible government by not repealing the Rebellion Losses Bill, which was highly unpopular with some English-speaking Tories who favoured imperial over majority rule.
He was well regarded by other Labour statesmen including Tony Benn, but came under heavy criticism from others including Denis Healey, who condemned the SDP split as a " disaster " for the Labour Party which prolonged their time in opposition and allowed the Tories to have an unbroken run of nearly 20 years in government.
Those who were not prepared to exclude James were labelled ' Abhorrers ' and later ' Tories '.
The " Tories " were men who supported the Mexican government.
The term " Tory " originates from the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1678-1681-the Whigs were those who supported the exclusion of the Roman Catholic Duke of York from the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland, and the Tories were those who opposed it.
After becoming associated with repression of popular discontent in the years after 1815, the Tories underwent a fundamental transformation under the influence of Robert Peel, himself an industrialist rather than a landowner, who in his 1834 " Tamworth Manifesto " outlined a new " Conservative " philosophy of reforming ills while conserving the good.
Though Peel's supporters subsequently split from their colleagues over the issue of free trade in 1846, ultimately joining the Whigs and the Radicals to form what would become the Liberal Party, Peel's version of the party's underlying outlook was retained by the remaining Tories, who adopted his label of Conservative as the official name of their party.
Presbyterians of upland North Carolina, who had immigrated just before the Revolution, and often been Tories, became Federalists.
" The oligarchic Family Compact was defended by Tories who explained, " The Radicals, Revolutionists or Destructives was composed of all the American settlers and speculators in land, some of the more simple and ignorant of the older class of farmers, and the rabble of adventurers who poured in every year from the United States or from Britain, to evade the laws of their respective countries.
The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s.
This situation also became increasingly uncomfortable to many of the non-Junto Whigs, led by the Duke of Somerset and the Duke of Shrewsbury, who began to intrigue with Robert Harley's Tories.
Ironically, it was the Tories who finally agreed to purchase it, in 1858, for the then recently founded National Portrait Gallery, London | National Portrait Gallery.
In response, disenchanted Tories who perceived a danger to the established religion came to favour parliamentary reform, in particular the enfranchisement of Manchester, Leeds, and other heavily Noncomformist cities in northern England.
It was headed by Lord Godolphin and Anne's favourite the Duke of Marlborough, who were considered moderate Tories, along with the Speaker of the House of Commons, Robert Harley.
Many of the High Tories, who opposed British involvement in the land war against France, were removed from office.
Walpole developed an intense hatred for Robert Harley ( by then Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ) and Lord Bolingbroke, the Tories who had engineered his impeachment.
Tories and believed
Whig politicians believed Parliament had the right to determine the succession, and bestow it on the nearest Protestant relation of the Queen, while many Tories were more inclined to believe in the hereditary right of the Stuarts.
George I distrusted the Tories who he believed opposed his right to succeed to the Throne.
Tories believed in absolute allegiance to the king, who governed by divine right ( 246 ).
Some believed that he sympathized with the cause of the Tories during the Revolution.
The Tories are parodied as the Tramecksan or " High-Heels " ( due to their adhesion to the high church party of the Church of England, and their exalted views of royal supremacy ), while the Whigs are represented as the Slamecksan or " Low-Heels " ( the Whigs inclined toward low church views, and believed in parliamentary supremacy ).
Pro-British Tories believed that the British colonists deserved more than mercenary foes.
It is believed that the Tories retained him as they sought to maintain the support of the Compton family.
His parents were Tories " who believed in character and pulling oneself up by one's own bootstraps ".
However, Pitt rejected the Tory label, preferring to refer to himself as an ' Independent Whig ', for, unlike the Tories of the first half of the eighteenth century, he believed in the current constitutional arrangement as being well balanced, without particular favour towards the royal prerogative.
Other Diefenbaker opponents, such as those who had urged Smith to run, believed that the 61-year-old Diefenbaker would be merely a caretaker, who would serve a few years and then step down in favour of a younger man, and that the upcoming election would be lost to the Liberals regardless of who led the Tories.
Although most former members and supporters ( including then-leader Bill Boyd ) joined the Saskatchewan Party in 1997, the Tories are believed to retain a substantial amount of money, which the party would forfeit to the provincial government if it ever became de-registered.
Wagner attracted support amongst Tories who believed that having a leader from Quebec would enable the party to break the federal Liberal Party's stranglehold on the province, and from right-wing Tories attracted by his law and order reputation.
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He was on the editorial board which prepared the Club's October 1985 Conservative Party Conference issue of their newspaper, Right Ahead, to which he contributed a lengthy article entitled How Tories are Subsidising the Soviet War Machine.
* Taylor, Teddy, MP, How Tories are Subsidising the Soviet War Machine, in Right Ahead newspaper published by the Conservative Monday Club, October 1985 Conservative Party Conference issue
In 1982 Scruton became founding editor of The Salisbury Review — a journal championing traditional conservatism, in opposition to Thatcherism — set up by a group of Tories known as the Salisbury Group, with the involvement of the Peterhouse Right, a circle of conservatives associated with the Cambridge college, including Maurice Cowling, David Watkin, and the mathematician Adrian Mathias.
Tories and Kings
Targeted by Tories during and following the War, when he was badly wounded while spying for American forces on the eve of the Battle of Kings Mountain, Martin was the brother of militia General Joseph Martin, namesake of Martinsville, Virginia.
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", taking aim at how the Tories had replaced their proven leader with an unknown.
Even the Tories, who had declared that should he fail they would " break him up like hounds on a hare ", could not entirely restrain their patriotic admiration.
However, in the 19th Century, the Liberal Party stood for British classical liberalism and free trade, and the Conservatives, especially so-called " Red Tories ", for protectionism.
The Tory party was now heavily split between the " High Tories " ( or " Ultras ", nicknamed after the contemporary party in France ) and the moderates supporting Canning, often called " Canningites ".
Despite the party's name and their position as " rebel Tories ", some of their candidates and officials were from the European Movement and originally from parties other than the Conservatives, such as Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
" The Los Angeles Times reported in 1946 that Chad was " the No. 1 doodle ", noting his appearance on a wall in the Houses of Parliament after the 1945 Labour election victory, with " Wot, no Tories?
The Tories had released their platform, " The Road Ahead ", in May.
In later years, this would be the occasion for his Tory enemies to dub him " Tapski ", with the Polish ending because Tories accused him of wanting to make England an elective monarchy like the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth.
On May 18, 2004, Provincial Finance Minister Greg Sorbara released the McGuinty government's first budget, the first year of a four year plan focused on tackling four deficits the Liberals claim the previous Tories left behind: the " health deficit ", the " education deficit ", the " infrastructure deficit " and the " fiscal deficit ".
* On 8 December 2005, when referring to the economic record of the Conservatives in the 1980s, making the remark, " The only thing that was growing then were the lines of coke in front of boy George and the rest of the Tories ", a reference to allegations originally published in the Sunday Mirror of cocaine use by the Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne ( though, in the Commons, Skinner referred to the News of the World ).
Gorman disliked what she termed " middle-class idiots ", chauvinists, the EU, wet Tories, and the attitude of those in the Conservative Party who thought they were born to rule.
This culminated on 1 June, dubbed by the Tories " Black Friday ", when Speaker René Beaudoin reversed a ruling he had made the previous evening which would have allowed the Opposition to continue the debate past the deadline.
At times they cooperated with the " Opposition Whigs ", Whigs who were in opposition to the Whig government ; however, the ideological gap between the Tories and the Opposition Whigs prevented them from coalescing as a single party.
Drew led the Tories in a second battle with the government the following year: in the so-called " Pipeline Debate ", the government invoked closure repeatedly in a weeks-long debate which ended with the Speaker ignoring points of order as he had the division bells rung.
In the 1943 provincial election, the Tories, now called the " Progressive Conservatives ", won a minority government, narrowly beating the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) led by Ted Jolliffe.
This allowed Anderson to form a " Co-operative government ", a coalition between the Tories, Progressives and Independents.
From 1956 the Tories gained significant ground with Robert Stanfield's reformation of the " Progressive Conservatives ", and have successfully challenged the Liberals for control of the government.
", and suggesting that it would be impossible to form a majority government in the country without a plurality of seats in Ontario, which only the Tories could win.
The " Petitioners ", those who backed a series of petitions to Charles to call Parliament together in order to complete the passage of the Exclusion Bill, became known as the Whigs, while the Court party, or the " Abhorrers " in the political cant of the hour, meaning those who found the Exclusion Bill abhorrent, would develop into the Tories.
The Tory Party was heavily split between the " High Tories " ( or " Ultras ", nicknamed after the contemporary party in France ) and the moderates supporting Canning, often called ' Canningites '.
It passed the Lords without much opposition, but on being brought down to the House of Commons, the Tories made a great outcry against this " abandonment of Christianity ", as they called it.
* " Tories in turmoil as ' No Home Malone ' fails ", The Independent, 22 Nov 1997
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