In the mid-eighteenth century, the political ideology developed in england, emphasizing that concentrated power was historically the enemy of the people's liberty and that too much power lodged in any person or group usually produced corruption and tyranny.

In the mid-eighteenth century, the "Whigs" political ideology developed in England...

The Whigs were a political group and after that a political gathering in the parliaments of Britain, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the UK. Between the 1850s, they challenged control with their adversaries, the Tories. The Whigs' source lay in established monarchism and resistance to outright monarchy.

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