Country Party (Britain)
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Country Party was the name employed in the Kingdom of England (and later in Great Britain) by political movements which campaigned in opposition to the Court Party (that is, the Ministers of the Crown and those who supported them).
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Country Party (1726—1752) | |
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Leader | Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke |
Founded | 1726; 298 years ago (1726) |
Dissolved | 1752; 272 years ago (1752) |
Merger of | Commonwealth men Patriot Whigs Tories |
Succeeded by | Patriots Radicals Tories Whigs |
Newspaper | The Craftsman |
Ideology | Parliamentary opposition Populism Anti-corruption |
Political position | Syncretic |
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In the late 1600s, it was used to denote what would later become known as the Whig Party, characterised by its opposition to absolute monarchy; in the early to middle 1700s it was taken up by opponents of the Whig Walpole ministry, which they claimed was acting tyrannically and against the interest of the British nation and its people.