... and Tory factions in England, the legacy of which, according to some historians, is America's unique two-party system. Other historians see in Leisler's assumption of the New York government a forerunner of the American Revolution. Best known as a leader of a 1689 New York rebellion that came to bear his name, Jacob Leisler was one of late seventeenth-century New York's most prominent ... Whig and Tory factions in England, the legacy of which, according to some historians, is America's unique two-party system. Other historians see in Leisler's assumption of the New York government a for...

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