Toryism
“Conservatism”
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The dominant conservative political creed in England, repeatedly acting as a counter-current to reform.
The toryism, for instance, which in 1785 rejected Pitt’s proposal to disfranchise thirty-six rotten boroughs, with compensation to their owners, and to give additional members to the counties and to London, did much more than arrest the reform of Parliament for all but half a century.
In 1832, it may be said, passionate enthusiasm for parliamentary reform and all the innovations to which it gave birth, displaced, as it were, in a moment the obstinate toryism which for nearly half a century had been the accepted creed, if not of the whole nation, yet assuredly of the governing classes;
An ardent reformer of 1832 could as a “conservative” of 1838 mingle traditions inherited from old toryism with ideas derived from new and Benthamite liberalism.