Examples of Tories in the following topics:
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- He alienated otherwise supportive Tories with his attempts to relax penal laws and faced opposition from the Anglican church hierarchy when he issued the Declaration of Indulgence.
- With the birth of his son and potential successor James III in June 1688, some Whigs and Tories set aside their political differences and conspired to replace James with his Protestant son-in-law, William of Orange.
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- Loyalists, also known as Tories or Royalists, were American colonists who supported the British monarchy during the American Revolutionary War.
- "Tory Refugees on the Way to Canada" by Howard Pyle, 1901
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- Some of the most influential leaders of the Tories united with members of the opposition Whigs and set out to resolve the crisis by inviting William of Orange to England, which the stadtholder, who feared an Anglo-French alliance, had indicated as a condition for a military intervention.
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- In
general, Whig politicians were vehemently opposed to the Tory plan for militarily
suppressing the colonial rebellion, causing great divisions within Parliament.
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- "Two political Sects have arisen within the U.S. the one believing that the executive is the branch of our government which the most needs support; the other that like the analogous branch in the English Government, it is already too strong for the republican parts of the Constitution; and therefore in equivocal cases they incline to the legislative powers: the former of these are called federalists, sometimes aristocrats or monocrats, and sometimes Tories, after the corresponding sect in the English Government of exactly the same definition: the latter are still republicans, Whigs, Jacobins, anarchists, disorganizers, etc. these terms are in familiar use with most persons. "
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- The country party system was adopted by liberal Whigs, and even some Tories in England, who criticized the corruption and nepotism of the royal court party in favor of parliamentary representation as the least corruptible form of governance.
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- I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals—if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories.