Whig Party
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- noun
- /wɪg ˈpɑrti/
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Partido Whig
- Much of the focus for both groups of historians centers on the realignment of the 1850s, which saw the death of the Whig Party, the rise of the nativist Know Nothing Party, the creation of the Republican Party, and eventually, the sectional split within the Democratic Party that preceded the outbreak of the Civil War.
- the True Whig Party
Examples
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Parties that cannot display adaptability and are unequal to the demands of their time will die, as is right, much as the Whig Party did before the Civil War.
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The GOP is going the way of the Whig party—for exactly the same reason.
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The Republicans must either do this or take the path of the Whig party.
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The thing that ultimately led to the downfall of the Whig Party was government spending.
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Although in the minority, the Whig party generally ensured that the state maintain a sense of economy during the initial phases of construction.
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The last viable candidate of the Whig Party was General Winfield Scott, the John McCain of his day.
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This alienated white Georgians, some of whom had been members of the defunct Whig Party before the war.
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The Republican Party formed a decade prior to the American Civil War when the anti-slavery members of the Whig Party decided to stop being Democrat-lite slavery acceptors.
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Since the Republican Party formed in the 1850s and replaced the Whig Party as the second of the two major parties, the two-party lineup has consisted of the same two parties, Democrats and Republicans.
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In 1840, the Whig Party nominated William Henry Harrison as their candidate for president.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'Whig' names a political faction and 'party' means a political organization, so 'Whig Party' straightforwardly denotes the political party formed by Whigs. This is a proper-name/label formation rather than an idiom, and such party-label constructions are cross-linguistically common and therefore transparent to learners who know the constituent words.
Etymology
Whig Party comes from an old British word Whig for people who stood 'against' kingly power. American politicians chose Whig Party to show they were 'against' strong presidents, so the name became the label for the party that opposed the Democrats.