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Clear Grits
Leader
George Brown
Founded
1850 (1850)
Dissolved
July 1, 1867 (1867-07-01)
Preceded by
Reformers
Merged into
Liberal Party of Canada
Headquarters
Toronto, Canada West
Ideology
Liberalism Classical liberalism
Politics of Ontario
Political parties
Elections
Clear Grits were reformers in the Canada West district of the Province of United Canada, a British colony that is now the Province of Ontario, Canada. Their name is said to have been given by George Brown, who said that only those were wanted in the party who were "all sand and no dirt, clear grit all the way through".[1][2]
Their support was concentrated among southwestern Canada West farmers, who were frustrated and disillusioned by the 1849 Reform government of Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine's lack of democratic enthusiasm. The Clear Grits advocated universal male suffrage, representation by population, democratic institutions, reductions in government expenditure, abolition of the Clergy Reserves, voluntarism, and free trade with the United States. Clear Grits from Upper Canada shared many ideas with Thomas Jefferson.
^Bélanger 2005.
^Vance, Michael E. (1997). "Scottish Chartism in Canada West? An Examination of the 'Clear Grit' Reformers". International Review of Scottish Studies. 22. University of Guelph: 56–104.
ClearGrits were reformers in the Canada West district of the Province of United Canada, a British colony that is now the Province of Ontario, Canada...
formed the ClearGrits. 1867: The Reform Party merged into Liberal Party of Canada 1855: Radical members of the Reform Party formed the ClearGrits 1867: The...
allied with the ClearGrits. This resulted in the shortest-lived government in Canadian history, falling in less than a day. The ClearGrits were the inheritors...
Alexander Mackenzie, Robert Baldwin, William Lyon Mackenzie and the ClearGrits in Upper Canada, Joseph Howe in Nova Scotia, and the Patriotes and Rouges...
success. The party did form government as part of a coalition with the ClearGrits and Liberals from Canada West on some occasions before confederation...
Look up Grit, grit, grits, grittiness, or gritty in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Grit, Grits, or Gritty may refer to: Grit (grain), bran, chaff, mill-dust...
be formed. In Canada, the Great Coalition was formed in 1864 by the ClearGrits, Parti bleu, and Liberal-Conservative Party. During the First World War...
participate in the 1852 negotiations to merge the Reform movement with the ClearGrits, a new political movement in Canada West. On October 5, 1852, Mackenzie...
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century, Associate justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. made the standard of "clear and present danger" based on Mill's idea. In the majority opinion, Holmes...
to render complex ideas intelligible to average readers of the day, with clear, concise writing unlike the formal, learned style favored by many of Paine's...
with the pro-American and annexationist tendencies within the liberal ClearGrits. Tory strength and prominence in the political culture was a feature...
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capabilities in social reforms. However, the French troops called by the Pope made clear that the resistance of the Republican troops, led by Garibaldi, was in vain...
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1854. In 1857, Brown brought together the Reformers and the radical "ClearGrits" of southwestern Ontario to create a new party in Upper Canada with a...
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from defections by more radical Reformers. This group joined with the ClearGrits to form the opposition Liberal Party led by Edward Blake and Oliver Mowat...
into the Great Coalition with Cartier's Parti bleu and George Brown's ClearGrits. Macdonald, Cartier, and Brown felt union with the other British colonies...
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remaining Reformers left for the ClearGrits, renaming the party, the Liberal Party. The Liberal Party is still known as the 'Grits' in most of English speaking...
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