1. Whigs and Tories - After the Glorious Revolution
... role for Parliament in governing the country and During the Glorious Revolution the Whig and Tory parties cooperated in discontinuing the Stuart dynasty and seating William III of Orange on the throne of England, Scotland, and Ireland. It was during this period that the two parties, although their differences ... firm views on the unlawfulness of resistance to kings, some of its clergy found it impossible to justify the deposition of James II and his replacement by William III and Mary II. While the Whigs exploited these difficulties by ensuring that all office-holder took an oath of all...
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