The liberal-progressive combination proved successful ... Whig coalition that was only united by opposition to him. The Whig Party ran its last presidential candidate in 1852 and then disintegrated.

The Tories were staunch royalists while the Whigs were determined to limit the power of the monarchy. In 1859 the Liberal Party was formed as political opposition to the Conservatives. This makes the ...

As a dedicated Liberal I’ve always vaguely subscribed to the Whig view of history, defined roughly that, by and large, on the whole and in the main, things are gradually getting better.  Improvements ...

The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican Party, the leaders of which were John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. They were nationalists, supported internal improvements and moral reforms ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The four candidates vying to become the next leader of Canada’s Liberal party made the case during a debate Tuesday night why they are best suited to deal ...

The phrase then made its way to France and Great Britain, where, by the 1840s, the Whigs had transformed into the Liberal ...

J. Scott Applewhite The Associated Press Is the Democrat Party going in the same direction that the Whig Party went in 1856? Since 2009, the Democrats have lost more than 900 seats in state ...

TORONTO (AP) — Former central banker Mark Carney will become Canada’s next prime minister after the governing Liberal Party elected him its leader Sunday as the country deals with U.S ...