Man. This video lasted longer then the Whig party itself. LOL

Did you know that Whig leader Daniel webster was offered the position of VP for William Harrison and Zachary Taylor, but he didn't want it saying it had no responsibility, yet he would have become president if he had taken the positions.

Henry Clay is a legend. Never got elected to be president though, couldn't help but cheer for him when learning American History.

The Democrats Polked them in 1844, and Pierced them in 1848

so let me get this right, a man like james buchanan became president but henry clay couldnt? oh america!!

The Rise (1834-1835) and Fall (1836) and Rise (1837-1843) and Fall (1844-1847) and Rise (1848-1851) and Fall (1852-1857) of the Whig Party.

Sometimes I wonder what politics in America would look like if we listened to Washington and we just never had political parties to begin with

I wonder if the modern Whig party would accept a donation in a $20 bill.

From U.K. The British Whig Party was later renamed the Liberal Party. In the 18th century a branch of the Whig Party calling themselves Patriots came into conflict with the ruling Tory Party. This conflict spread to the colonies. An aspect of the American Revolutionary War that is often overlooked was the influence of British Patriots. Just as many colonists were Tories. Britain was not just at war with the colonists, France, Spain, Holland and India it was also at war with itself. My home town of Rotherham Yorkshire was Patriot. On a hill overlooking the town stands a monument to the Boston Tea Party called Boston Castle. The building was paid for by Whig member of Parliament and soldier Thomas Earl of Effingham. Counties in Georgia and Illinois were named for Effingham. Founding Father Benjamin Franklin visited the town before the war and later Thomas Paine came and helped design an iron bridge. Local men refused to go to America and fight fellow Patriots. American tourists to Britain are often surprised to see statues to American Patriots such as George Washington.

People need to focus less on the party name and more on the issues the party represents at the time

You teach me so much I wish I had learned in high school or college American history courses, some 50 years ago when I was a student. A commendable job you do with all these videos. Sorry that it took me this long to view this video, both from the time you made it years ago and from the time I should have learned stuff like this back when I was 18.

1:24 Henry Clay ran on the National Republican ticket in 1832, although it was the Whig ticket in all but name.

Very informative yet concise. Good job, Mr. Beat!

I'm not sure if it was intended but the contrast between the voice and the music has a great comedic affect and the info is pretty great too, too the point:)

W.I.N.O. really got me

Lol Tyler was a WINO and didn't even drink.

I hope you know how much I appreciate your videos 🙏❤️

I honestly wouldn't mind the whig party to come back, they could be a nice mediation from this tense 2 party system

Did… Did Mr. Beat just say Compromise of 1850 without singing it?

MIllard Filmore looked like alec baldwin

They need to have a remake of the Whig Party

I really like that music!

1:14 - Young Henry Clay looks kinda like Mr. Beat.

Mr Beat, nicely done. Thank you. .... a modern.........

Oh man, that music is amazing

Good job. I enjoyed the video

Wow Henry Clay must've felt like such a failure I can't even imagine...

You should do a video on all the current parties even 3rd it would be very interesting

Wait, didn't Henry Clay run as a National Republican? The party that sort of formed after Jackson entered the picture and defeated John Quincy Adams? The Whig Party's first performance was when they ran against Martin Van Buren.

I like the music on this one.

wow...thanks for a simple informative almost funny but accurate explanation of the Whig Party. I shall use this in 11th grade US history class tomorrow. I will be checking out your other videos soon. Thank You.

I love the portraits

Just listened to a 2010 biography of Henry Clay which was very illuminating indeed!

I miss the old Whig party

Stable video👍

Very, very interesting.

"what is groovy" Dumbledore said calmly

As near as I can tell, 1844 was Henry Clay's fourth run at the Presidency, after 1824, 1832 and 1840, not his fifth. He also ran in 1848. If he'd lived through 1852 he would probably have run then.

He should do more of these!

I love you Mr Beat

Now we have the “ Wigged out Party” !?!?!?

beat has a sick tie🤙🏼

Music is way too loud. Hard to hear at times.

The Modern Whig party officially dissolved in 2019. Only 11 years, too short indeed.

It’s true that the Whigs and Jacksonian Democrats don’t exactly match up with the modern understanding of what conservatism and liberalism are. And neither was ideologically monolithic in its make-up. At root, they mixed what perhaps many might find to be somewhat counterintuitive beliefs. But they were in ways that still feel resonant all this time later. Howard Ashworth described their competition as, “a clash of democracy with capitalism”. The Democrats being identified with democracy as they of course claimed the mantle of fighting for the “common man” while the Whigs were linked to capitalism as exhibited by their affirmation that they lived in, “a country of self-made men”. Andrew Jackson accused his enemies of representing “associated wealth” and a “corrupt aristocracy” while the Whigs branded him a “demagogue” and “King Andrew”. The Whigs weren’t anti-democratic, it was pretty much impossible to be at that point anyway, but they were resistant to the mass populist mobilization unleashed by the Democrats. Neither were they on board with the more radical stances taken by the Jacksonians such as a call to abolish the electoral college and making Supreme Court justices popularly elected positions. And yet, while they defended business from class agitation, the Whigs were also critical of the notion of individualism which was glorified by the Jacksonians and were adamant that people’s animal impulses were subordinated by practicing self-control and focusing on duty to an organic society with a distinct cultural heritage. Daniel Walker Howe compared it to classical Aristotelian ideas of human nature. Most of their social and moral reforms, including Sunday blue laws and temperance, were to the end of promoting those values. As James Reichley noted, the Whigs themselves adopted the word “conservative” which they connected with, “‘law and order’, social caution, and moral restraint”. And while the Democrats placed a heavy emphasis on individualism, as listed among the core concepts underlying Jacksonian Democracy by William S. Belko, they put, “the welfare of the community over the individual”. The Whig fusion of individual enterprise and civic responsibility is fundamentally a very conservative formulation while that of collective action and personal freedom as developed by the Democrats is quite a liberal one even if imperfectly applied. Arguably, they do remain recognizable today.

Thanks for an informative video. I've always wondered why an American political party took the name of a British political party

Music too loud

The very best history of the American Whig party is found in Michael Holt's appropriately named "The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party" published by Oxford. Bonus! Bonus! This is also one of the very best books you will read written about the real causes of the Civil War. And it is a great work on just how American politics transformed from the days of the Founders until now. But you will have to be dedicated to read this 985 page work. Fun fact: Holt took longer to write this book than the Whig party lasted. And he explains why.

The local newspaper of Cecil County, Maryland, is still The Cecil Whig.

Whigs against the Imperial Presidency Posted by Shawn Martin 42wp on January 17, 2018 · American Whigs have always had a difficult relationship with the office of the president. In part, this is probably because they started off against a particular “imperial president,” Andrew Jackson. If one looks at past Whig presidents, however, the list is short and far from illustrious. Despite the shortcomings of these individuals, the Whigs have left a lasting constitutional approach to the presidency that continued at least until the time of Republican president William Howard Taft. After leaving office and becoming a law professor at Yale in 1915, Taft wrote a book called Our Chief Magistrate and his Powers, in which he laid out what has become known as the strict constructionist or “Whig” theory of the presidency. In part, Taft was arguing against some of the excesses of Theodore Roosevelt who, in the election of 1912, ran for an unprecedented third term as president. In what has become known as the stewardship theory of the presidency, Roosevelt was reflecting a viewpoint that the chief executive is limited only by what the Constitution strictly prohibits; otherwise, the president is free to act as he or she sees fit in order to advance the interests of the American people. Taft on the other hand reflected a much longer tradition within American history, and especially within the Republican Party after the Civil War. In Taft’s interpretation of the Executive Office, he claims: “ The true view of the Executive functions is, as I conceive it, that the President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power or justly implied and included within such express grant as proper and necessary to its exercise. Such specific grant must be either in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof.” In other words, the presidency is limited only to the powers that the Constitution provides the office. One might argue that since Theodore Roosevelt, presidents have subscribed heavily to the stewardship theory. In fact one might even go so far as to suggest that the majority of modern presidents could be called an imperial president who has taken on too much power. Commentators from both the left and the right have contended that Franklin Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and culminating in Donald Trump have done exactly that. Perhaps being an imperial president is now no longer the exception, but the norm. Taft summarized the dangers of the stewardship theory and the presidents such a model could produce by saying: “ The mainspring of such a view is that the Executive is charged with responsibility for the welfare of all the people in a general way, that he is to play the part of a Universal Providence and set all things right, and that anything that in his judgment will help the people he aught to do, unless he is expressly forbidden not to do it. The wide field of action that this would give to the Executive one can hardly limit.” To put Taft's statement another way, by allowing presidents to gain too much power, there is a very real danger of presidential tyranny. From a Whig viewpoint which that stands ardently against tyranny of any kind, it is important to fight against any potential for a president to become too powerful. Fortunately there is a solution to the problem, which is to make sure that the true voice of the people, Congress, functions properly. It is up to Whigs to fight the imperial presidency and to make our the people’s voice in Congress work again. The tenth amendment to the Constitution states that “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” It is time for Whigs to take back the powers usurped by the imperial presidency and give them back to the legislative branch where they belong. It is time to resurrect Taft’s theories on executive powers and to ensure that every government official “exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power or justly implied and included within such express grant as proper and necessary to its exercise.” The Modern Whigs are dedicated to giving power back to the people, through having true representatives in the peoples' House and Senate.

Thank you. I've been wondering for years if they wore wigs.

what song is this i try to go to the link but it shows a website to pay somthing

"Whigs would be considered Liberal by today's standard." I don't know, to me, it sounded like he was describing Conservatives.

President Hayes, by ending Reconstruction, made a deeply calculated long range move to attract the Southern Whigs to the GOP. Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and Eisenhower would reap the first benefits. In 1964, there was a realignment where the South finally went Solid Republican from the still hot embers of the Southern Whigs.

It's an oversimplification to say that the British Whigs were "anti-king" (1:48). They supported the supremacy of parliament. American Whigs took the name because they argued that the president should defer to Congress.

Good summary. The soundtrack was groovy. A little too loud because it competed with the dialogue, but definitely groovy.

2020 here and we kinda want some new parties.

Yea Bring back the Wig Party.

0:04 How do you do fellow kids?

Great music to whig out to

Very informative. Thank you very much. Next time, please leave out the background music.

0:04 You look great in that wig. You forgot to mention that John Tyler was the first president to have his vetos overwritten by Congress and the first to face impeachment charges without getting impeached

odd choice of music but i like it alot

That dang WINO Tyler

bravo

Wow! I think I might like this better than the Election Series!

Lol that isn’t Millard Filmore that’s Alec Baldwin in a black and white photo. Don’t lie to me Mr Beat.

Mr.Beat,I love your well researched and well done channel! The Whigs seemed to have come out of nowhere; were their original members in another party before breaking off? Also,why didn't Poke run for a second term?

Tyler, too!

5:22 There is the boss.

One definition of whig that I saw was a philosophy of belief in the advancement of mankind over reactionary forces.

Washington was right, political parties lead to division. We should have listened to him.

What's the music?

Yes. Good

They should bring the Whig Party back

How much was US Whig party linked to the Whig party in the UK at the time.

"they would only divide the country" 2021: WELL NO SHIT!

10 years wow

Lincoln was a Whig I didn't know that

Mr. Beat, great video! Have you done a summation of the Progressive (or Bull Moose) Party, that of which Theodore Roosevelt later in his political career became a member? Third party nominees do not win the presidency, with the one notable exception which I'm certain you know all too well, but they can have an impact on the voting results of statewide contests, state by state. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln, who founded the new Republican Party, defeated both the Democratic Party nominee named John C. Breckinridge and the Constitutional Union Party candidate named John Bell. Also, many presidential historians believe that had John Anderson not run as a member of the American Party, in 1980, Democrat Jimmy Carter would have won a second term over Republican Ronald Reagan -- a.k.a.: "The Gipper." Even more to the point, if Texas billionaire Ross Perot and the "Perot Phenomenon," not run as an Independent presidential candidate--an organization effort that would later become the United We Stand Party, in 1992, Republican George Herbert Walker Bush may have won a second term over the Democrat William Jefferson Clinton. Would there then not have been the birth of Right-wing Talk Radio?

If you like it than you shoulda put a Whig on it

After losing the election, Lewis Cass would go on to star in Throw Momma From the Train

The 1982 music tho.

Did you take the music from an early 90s video game?

short version: the whig party only had people with wigs

It all gets very disco here 0:42

they all look very confident

Don't forget: Jiminy Glick is a Whig.

I wonder how the Modern Whig party is doing now? Relatively speaking.

I don't know about anybody else, but, Alex Baldwin can play Millard Fillmore should they do a movie 📽️ about him. He looks so much like him, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if Fillmore is Baldwin's ancestor

Makes me wonder what it would be like today

I thought the phrase "Man on Horseback" originated with the French Third Republic political figure, Georges Boulanger. At any rate, I would not consider Jackson a "Man on Horseback" despite his military background due to the weak position of the military in American politics, especially at this time.

I'm distantly related to Henry Clay

What a primitive world 2014 was. I was 30. 😅

The music is too loud.

I wanna join the Wig Party!

The WHIG Party was a catch-all party.

But Clay was speaker of the house, he was never a senator... was he?

Tyler not bad

Henry Clay - the original perennial candidate.