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We have three right wing parties I would argue the LibDems are the most left wing, but they're still generally conservative and on the right, especially compared with many Liberals and true Whiggs of the past.
The London Carnival of Nu Liberty Guthrum 2009
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I'm not accusing biologists of being endotherm-centric Whiggs, but if the shoe fits ...
Even more recently extinct, island dwelling crocodilians Darren Naish 2006
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Verse 2, Line 2: 'Whiggish' i. e the Whiggs the historical party who opposed the Jacobites.
Lady Traquair's Brew 2006
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South Carolina, &c. &c. &c. An happy Election for the Whiggs on the first of
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Infantry, which takes up a Line of 9 or 10 Miles upon their March and will not be less than 5 or 6 Hours passing through the Town, will make a good Impression upon the Minds of the timourous Whiggs for their
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 23 August 1777 1963
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It will make an entire and final Seperation of the Wheat from the Chaff, the Ore from the Dross, the Whiggs from the Tories.
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Whiggs, exagerate, as much as they will, How has not in all America, Ten Thousand Men fit for Duty, nor in my Opinion Seven.
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The Quakers begin to say they are not Tories -- that their Principle of passive Obedience will not allow them to be Whiggs, but that they are as far from being Tories as the
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The ministerial News Papers have swarmed with as numerous and as malicious Libels as the Whiggs antiministerial ones.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 July 1774, "Mobs are the trite Topick..." 1963
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The Proceedings of the late Convention are not well liked, by the best of the Whiggs.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 4 October 1776 1963
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