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...thinks that the Bill of Rights was far less a "piece of 18th century rationalist theory [than] the product of Christian history." In fact, to some it may seem that Murray at times regards the U.S. as having sprung directly from medieval Christianity-he calls St. Thomas "The First Whig"-with hardly any help from Protestantism or the Enlightenment...
Charles could yield to Parliament or thunder at it, and gain his ends by either device. His lack of vindictiveness was astonishing; of the calumnies of Lord Shaftesbury, the Whig leader who had hoped to execute him, the King remarked merely that "at doomsday we shall see whose arse is blackest." The monarch died in 1685, surrounded at first by musicians and concubines, and at the end by clerics and physicians. He was succeeded by his brother, James II, whom Nell called "dismal Jimmy," and of whom Charles had observed that his mistresses were so ugly that his priest...
...break the stranglehold of his fellow Americo-Liberians, Tubman began what he called a "national unification policy." In 1944, for the first time, tribal Liberians got the vote and even won a few seats in the legislature, where they proved to be reliable members of Tubman's True Whig Party. Later, Tubman extended the suffrage to women, took tribal Liberians into his Cabinet. In the back country, often carried in a hammock, the traditional mode of travel for Liberian VIPs, he palavered endlessly with jungle chiefs. Eventually he set up a network of bush clinics, experimental farms, and artificial...
...retained power for over 40 years. Tell: `) the name of this Prime Minister, 2) the name of his party, 3) the name of the King of England when this Prime Minister took office, 4) the name of the royal family to which he belonged. Answers: i) Robert Walpole, 2) Whig, 3) George I, 4) Hanover...
...would be appropriate to say more about this part of the book only if it were more important to Handlin. But regrettably he has subordinated this material, on which his studies have strongly qualified him to write, to his "Whig theory" of writing history in terms of the present. The view that Smith symbolized the high-water mark of Catholic political hopes may be correct; so may be the view that he was double-crossed by a vacuous F.D.R. But if these conclusions were valid they would stand more firmly on a better research and more detailed history...