It was a pleasure to have dinner the other night with Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada,” President Donald ...
Dating from the Georgian era, gentlemen's clubs were reserved exclusively for the aristocracy and the elite, to meet, drink, ...
At the time the British forces were in ... treachery to HENRY CLAY and to the Whig Party, which had made him President, added a new term to our political vocabulary. His treachery to all men ...
More than a century later, on April 14, 1979, the rice riot occurred, just when the country's economy was growing at an astronomical level from an annual rate of about two percent in 1961 to its ...
British mercantilist system of the eighteenth century against which the American Revolution was fought to secede from. As Edgar Lee Masters once wrote, Clay’s Whig party had no platform for its ...
The oligarchies of early modern Europe, particularly those that emerged in the Dutch and British (and later American) political contexts ... fell to a powerful oligarchy—the grandees of the Whig Party ...
In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump said the United States would be a nation that “expands its territory” and referenced the pursuit of “Manifest Destiny into the stars,” vowing to land ...
In British parliamentary elections not more ... own mistakes and after fifteen years was succeeded by the Whig Party. Out of the political ferment of the 1850s, with the degeneration of the ...
By the rule of the British navy ... but strenuously, a Whig, or Liberal, in political faith, connected by party ties with Fox and his coterie of friends, Jervis was always opposed to the abolition ...