Is there any mystery why the Whigs dwindled to nothingness in the 19th century?
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He represented both the Whigs and Tories in parliament at different times in his life, and was forced to retire to Blenheim following near-bankruptcy.
Yet, I suspect that most libertarians, if transported back in time, would find themselves more drawn to the Whigs than the Democrats.
From the BPP jukebox, here's The Whigs with like a vibration.
In 2006, Rolling Stone called The Whigs one of the best unsigned bands in America, which meant of course that they didn't stay unsigned for long.
Back in the '90s, few alt-rock frontmen built personas as macho and brawl-ready as Screaming Trees' Mark Lanegan and Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli.
Two years ago, the Republican Party was about as down as either party has been since the Whigs went out of business in the 1850s.
The Whigs, in contrast, were the party of big government do-gooders.
To their credit, the Whigs were harshly critical of the war even after it was begun, and many Whigs opposed annexing the land that became the American Southwest.
Is the GOP going the way of the Whigs?
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But, as governor from 1839 to 1842, Seward incited the wrath of anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic Whigs by increasing funding for public education for all children, advocating citizenship for immigrants, and passing a state law giving fugitive slaves the right to a trial.
While Jackson and his successors framed economic policy as a matter of limited-government principle, Howe argues that the practical difference was that the Whigs sought to create a coherent national transportation system, while Jackson preferred to dole out projects on an ad-hoc basis to individual states.
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