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Whig
Whig, said to be a word meaning 'sour milk'. The name was applied in Scotland, in 1648, to those violent Covenanters who opposed the Duke of Hamilton's invasion of England in order to restore Charles the First. Sir Walter Scott, however, gives a different derivation. Speaking of the rising of the Covenanters on this occasion, he says: 'This insurrection was called the Whigamores' Raid, from the word whig, whig, that is, get on, get on, which is used by the western peasants in driving their horses-a name destined to become the distinction of a powerful party in British history.'-Tales of a Grandfather, ch. xlv.The appellation of Whig and Tory to political factions was first heard of in 1679, and though as senseless as any cant terms that could be devised, they became instantly as familiar in use as they have since continued.-2 Hallam's Const. Hist., c 12.Whig and Tory differed mainly in this, that to a Tory the Constitution, inasmuch as it was the Constitution, with an ultimate point be...
Political party
Political party, in UK origins of organised political parties are relatively recent. They were first acknowledged by Burke in 1769; according to some commentators, the parties originated in Whig and Tory Groups in the late seventeenth century, Political Parties in Modern Britain, John D. Lees and Richard Kinber, p. 1.Means the largest mass organisation of voters in modern government, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, 1965, p. 417.Unlike in UK, the political parties in India are registered with Election Commission, Representa-tion of the People Act, 1951, s. 29A....
Tory
Tory, originally a nickname for the wild Irish in Ulster. An Act of the Irish Parliament for 'better suppressing tories, robbers, and rapparees,' 7 Wm. 3, c. 21, is repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act, 1878. Afterwards given to, and adopted by, one of the great parliamentary parties. see WHIG....
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