1. Here we may discern a connection with the Whig imagery of balance which dominated constitutional writing a century earlier.

2. In other places we find Whig crowds retaliating to a Tory initiative.

3. On the other side, the Whig defence of the executive was not totally new after 1689.

4. They shared Whig exclusionist politics and were arrested during the Monmouth rebellion.

5. There were larger numbers of Whig and Tories who found the pull of Court strong enough to override party loyalty.

6. He began by pouring ridicule on the whig leader.

7. Senator Henry Clay -- three times the Whig Party choice for president -- expected to be its candidate again.

8. The opposition Whig Party was happy over these developments. It saw an excellent chance to win the next presidential election.

9. William Henry Harrison , American Whig statesman and 9 th President, was born in Berkeley, Virginia.

10. Sought the Whig nomination in 1852, but lost to Winfield Scott.

11. Despite their differences, President Tyler and the Whig Congress enacted much positive legislation.

12. Fellow Whig MPs Richard Sheridan and Charles James Fox disagreed with Burke and split with him.

13. As expected, Clay was chosen as the Whig Party's candidate for president.

14. When the president refused to do so, Whig Party leaders urged the cabinet to resign. This would show that the president, alone, was responsible for the veto of the bills.

15. Whig leaders turned away from their early choice of Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky as their candidate. There was too much popular opposition to him.

16. The opposition Whig Party was happy over Van Buren's failures.

17. It was a strange conjunction — the prim serious young Queen and the elderly, cynical Whig.

18. The two men, the former a steadfast Tory, the latter a dedicated Whig, had crossed swords on several occasions.

19. From early youth Cayley was a keen proponent of parliamentary reform, and he took an active part in local Whig politics.

20. Thanks to Macaulay, he lives in history as the very type of a Whig oligarch.

21. However, a resurgence of working-class agitation during 1833-4 alarmed the Whig government and the propertied classes in general.

22. The main faction, led by Andrew Jackson, called themselves the Democratic Party, while the faction opposed to Jackson formed the Whig party in 1834.

23. He then won a big victory in the general election over the candidate of the Whig Party, General Winfield Scott. One of Pierce's friends, the writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, helped him with his campaign.

24. I never yet could ascertain properly whether you are a Whig or a Troy.

25. The political party that best represented progressive Protestantism in the three decades prior to the Civil War was the Whig Party.

26. The increasing bitterness over the issue of slavery put Whig leader Henry Clay in a difficult position.

27. Harrison was a retired general and a member of the Whig Party. He became the ninth president of the United States.

28. The Democratic victory was so great that many people thought the Whig Party was finished.

29. President Tyler sent the treaty with Texas to the Senate on April twenty-second[sentencedict.com/whig.html], eighteen forty-four. This was just nine days before the Whig party opened its national convention in Baltimore.

30. Webster and his supporters were Tyler's only real strength in the Whig Party outside of Virginia.