Whigs (British political party)  From Wikipedia, the free
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1868 Preceded by Country Party Succeeded by Liberal Party
Ideology Whiggism Colors Orange, Blue Politics of United Kingdom
Political parties  The Whigs were a political faction and then a
political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great
Britain and the United Kingdom. Between the 1680s and 1850s,
they contested power with their rivals, the Tories. The Whigs'
origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to
absolute rule. The Whigs played a central role in the Glorious
Revolution of 1688, and were the standing enemies of the Stuart
kings and pretenders, who were Roman Catholic. The Whigs took
full control of the government in 1715, and remained totally
dominant until King George III, coming to the throne in 1760,
allowed Tories back in. The "Whig Supremacy" (1715–1760) was
enabled by the Hanoverian succession of George I in 1714 and the
failed Jacobite rising of 1715