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In retrospect, it is obvious that what social historian Mary P. Ryan has dubbed the pre-Civil War "era of association," from the 1820s to the 1840s, coincided with the spread of adult male suffrage and the emergence of competitive, mass-mobilizing parties: first the Jacksonian Democrats, then the Whigs, and finally, the Free Soilers and the Republicans.
Webster, on the contrary, stubbornly maintains that the origin of the word is unknown and shows the Whigs in a favourable light by presenting them as the advocates of popular rights during the English Civil War and as the friends and supporters of the war and principles of revolution during the revolution in the United States.
Rebuffing these lower classes when they could have beguiled them, the Whigs made potential friends into enemies.
Johnson's terse and narrow definition reveals his Tory opposition to the Whigs, who normally were the government.
Here Johnson confers on the Tories the distinction of being the true representatives of English politics and religion, although one should not forget that the Whigs, too, believed in the constitution of the state equally well and used the same rhetoric for their own publicity.