"The ‘country Opposition’. A majority of the Whigs can be placed in this category, which again became an important factor in politics during the regroupings which followed the fall of the Cabal, under the leadership of Shaftesbury and Buckingham. Its title, "country", implied the claim that it represented the nation at large against a small, corrupt faction—the Court and its creatures. Like the title, its principles were traditional, those which had been evolved during the reigns of James I and Charles I: they can be summarised as honest administration and ministerial respect for the law, no favourites, the consultation of Parliament and the prompt redress of grievances, financial retrenchment and the furtherance of trade, insularity, and the defence of the Protestant religion."
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J. R. Jones, The First Whigs: The Politics of the Exclusion Crisis, 1678–1683 (1961), p. 11
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