The Glorious Revolution marked a significant turning point in the political history of Britain. In the aftermath, the House of Commons and Lords solidified a key 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 were ameliorated to an extent, moved forward another step in defining their respective party identities. The Tories became iden...

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An ambiguous, controversial concept, Jacksonian Democracy in the strictest sense refers simply to the ascendancy of Andrew Jackson and the Democratic party after 1828. More loosely, it alludes to the entire range of democratic reforms that proceeded alongside the Jacksonians' triumph "from expanding the suffrage to restructuring federal institutions. From another angle, however, Jacksonianism appears as a political impulse tied to slavery, the subjugation of Native Americans, and the celebration of white supremacy "so much so that some scholars have dismissed the phrase "Jackson...

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