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Liberal-Conservative Party

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a political group that developed in the last half of the nineteenth century, claiming to occupy a position between reactionary Tories and radical Reformers.

See: Liberal-Conservative ((n.)),Liberal-Conservative ((adj.))

Quotations

1916

The new-school conservative John A. McDonald was the leading spirit under whom the moderate reformer and the new-school conservative coalesced into what has since been known as the Liberal-Conservative party.

1953

Although Liberals constituted the official opposition in parliament and in the country, the party of which Macdonald was the head, despite the obvious contradiction in terms and the fact that its membership consisted almost wholly of Conservatives, called itself the Liberal-Conservative party.