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... whigs as the champion of a just cause.23 It was a matter of distinction that whigs had been prominent in movements to relieve religious dissidents and to emanci- pate slaves . In America , in India , even in Poland and Corsica , whigs ...
... whigs as the champion of a just cause.23 It was a matter of distinction that whigs had been prominent in movements to relieve religious dissidents and to emanci- pate slaves . In America , in India , even in Poland and Corsica , whigs ...
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... whigs that their immediate antecedents had more than fulfilled this obligation . The events of 1688 were still the model for the whigs of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , still the precedent to follow . It was the ...
... whigs that their immediate antecedents had more than fulfilled this obligation . The events of 1688 were still the model for the whigs of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , still the precedent to follow . It was the ...
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... whigs exited gracefully . Mischievously , from a whig viewpoint , radicals too often echoed some or all of these tory criticisms . Being unpleasant about whigs was an essential aspect of the phenomenon known as tory radicalism . Though ...
... whigs exited gracefully . Mischievously , from a whig viewpoint , radicals too often echoed some or all of these tory criticisms . Being unpleasant about whigs was an essential aspect of the phenomenon known as tory radicalism . Though ...
Contents
The Whigs the People and Reform | 25 |
Changing the Law in Germany in the Ancien Régime | 45 |
Notes on Contributors vii | |
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