With the Whigs, Pitt denounced the continuation of the American War of Independence, as his father strongly had.

Whigs denounced Manifest Destiny, arguing, " that the designers and supporters of schemes of conquest, to be carried on by this government, are engaged in treason to our Constitution and Declaration of Rights, giving aid and comfort to the enemies of republicanism, in that they are advocating and preaching the doctrine of the right of conquest ".

Whigs, such as Congressman Abraham Lincoln denounced the war, but it was quite popular outside New England.

In 1847, Sumner denounced a Boston Representative's vote for the declaration of war against Mexico with such vigor that he became a leader of the Conscience Whigs faction of the Massachusetts Whig Party.

His talent for public speaking became noted in the electoral politics of Bristol, where he denounced the complacency of both the Whigs and the Tories, and proclaimed himself a supporter of democratic radicalism.

Soon he quarreled with O ' Connell, repudiating him for his practice of yielding to the Whigs, and came out in favour of a more aggressive Repeal policy.

The Whigs had been irreparably split by the Kansas – Nebraska Act.

This was primarily a political strategy designed to give the Conservative party control of the reform process and the subsequent long-term benefits in the Commons, similar to those derived by the Whigs after their 1832 Reform Act.

After decades in opposition the Whigs came to power under Grey in 1830 and carried the First Reform Act in 1832.

The Reform Act was the climax of Whiggery but also brought about the Whigs ' demise.

After the Third Reform Act, fewer Whigs were selected as candidates.

* Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act, London: Allen Lane, 1975 ; with a new postscript, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977 ; London: Breviary Stuff Publications, 2012.

The Whigs, opposing the court religious policies, argued that the Dissenters should be allowed to worship separately from the established Church, and this position ultimately prevailed when the Toleration Act was passed in the wake of the Glorious Revolution ( 1689 ).

Southern Whigs generally supported the Act while Northern Whigs remained strongly opposed.

Most remaining Northern Whigs, like Lincoln, joined the new Republican Party and strongly attacked the Act, appealing to widespread northern outrage over the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.

The cult of this noblest of Whigs, “ the Genius of England and the Comet of his Age ,” was well advanced toward idolatry at least five years before the Stamp Act.

He was opposed in theory to the Reform Act 1832 proposed by the Whigs, but reluctantly believed that they were necessary to forestall the threat of revolution.

The Jacobite Uprising of 1715 discredited much of the Tory party as traitorous Jacobites, and Whig control of the levers of power ( e. g., through the Septennial Act ) ensured that the Whigs became the dominant party of government.

The Whigs also passed the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 that reformed the administration of relief to the poor.

The Act which finally succeeded was proposed by the Whigs, led by the Prime Minister Lord Grey.

When the Whig Party collapsed, Colfax briefly considered the Know-Nothing Party, but finally joined the new Republican Party that was formed as a fusion of northern Whigs, Anti-Nebraska Act Democrats, Know Nothings, and Free Soilers.

High churchmen and Tories, empowered late in Queen Anne's reign, sought to close this loophole with the passing of the Occasional Conformity Bill in 1711, however the Act was repealed after the Hanoverian Succession with the return to power of the Whigs, who were generally allied with non-conforming Protestants.

The more splendid his prospects the more reason he had to dread the accession of a family which was well known to be partial to the Whigs, and there is every reason to believe that he was one of those politicians who hoped that they might be able, during the life of Anne, to prepare matters in such a way that at her death there might be little difficulty in setting aside the Act of Settlement and placing James Francis Edward Stuart on the throne.

However, E. P. Thompson's Whigs and Hunters: The Origins of the Black Act ( 1975 ) and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou ( 1975 ), pioneering British and French microhistories, each preceded Ginzburg's book.

When the Whigs subsequently regained control, the Representation of the People Act 1832 disenfranchised many rotten boroughs controlled by Tories.

It also gave the Whigs a pretext for various acts which greatly strengthened their power, including the Riot Act and the Septennial Act 1715, the latter act unilaterally extending a Parliament elected for three years to seven years.

As a consistent champion of the working classes, a term he used with increasing frequency, he opposed the Whigs, both old and new, and the Reform Act 1832, which he believed did not go far enough in the extension of the franchise.

Northern Whigs generally opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act while Southern Whigs supported it.

The Liberal Party grew out of the Whigs, which had its origins as an aristocratic faction in the reign of Charles II.

These rights, which some Whigs considered to include freedom of the press and freedom of speech, were justified by custom rather than by natural rights.

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.

While the Peelites agreed with the Whigs on issues dealing with the international trade, there were other issues which the Peelites disagreed with the Whigs.

While the Whigs were still part of the Opposition under the minority government of the Earl of Derby, John Russell had said, in January 1852, that he intended to introduce a new Reform bill into the House of Commons which would equalize the populations of the districts from which members of Parliament were elected.

His opposition to the Reform Bill caused him to leave the Whigs and join the Tories, and he was elected, first for Cockermouth in 1831 and then in 1832 for Norwich, for which he sat until the dissolution of parliament in 1835.

From a political standpoint, the Whig Party had been in decline in the South because of the effectiveness with which the Democrats had hammered Whigs over slavery issues.

Many northern Whigs broke with Southern Whigs on this legislation, which eventually caused the death of the Party.

Some were later involved in his usurpation with the Whigs, which they saw as defending the Anglican Church.

Whigs demanded government support for a more modern, market-oriented economy, in which skill, expertise and bank credit would count for more than physical strength or land ownership.

The Whigs, both northern and southern, strongly opposed expansion into Texas, which they ( including Whig Congressman Abraham Lincoln ) saw as an unprincipled land grab.

In 1860, many former Whigs who had not joined the Republicans regrouped as the Constitutional Union Party, which nominated only a national ticket.

Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Rutherford Hayes were Whigs before switching to the Republican Party, from which they were elected to office.

Pitt now expected a new government to be formed led by Pulteney and dominated by Tories and Patriot Whigs in which he could expect a junior position.

Russell & Gladstone ( now the senior Liberal in the House of Commons ) attempted to pass a reform bill, which was defeated in the House of Commons because of the refusal of the " Adullamite " Whigs, led by Robert Lowe, to support it.

The Whigs now moved into opposition and particularly decried the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, which they attempted to block through their majority in the House of Lords.

With such noted intellectuals as Edmund Burke behind them, the Rockingham Whigs laid out a philosophy which for the first time extolled the virtues of faction, or at least their faction.

The Whigs were opposed by the government of Lord North, which they accused of being a " Tory " administration, although it largely consisted of individuals previously associated with the Whigs — many old Pelhamites, as well as the Whig faction formerly led by the Duke of Bedford, and elements of that which had been led by George Grenville, although it also contained elements of the " Kings ' Men ", the group formerly associated with Lord Bute and which was generally seen as Tory-leaning.