The American Founders often wore wigs, at least in their official portraits.  The term "Whigs" became a label for the Founders' intellectual elite of highly (self-) educated men like Jefferson, Washington, Madison, and the others, who saw themselves as English gentlemen in the New World and who therefore insisted on the legal rights of Englishmen as well.  That is what the Declaration of Independence insisted on.  When the Declaration was refused, the moral and legal basis of the American Revolution was established. Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, and soon after came a popular revolt: Jacksonian Democracy.  Ultimately, the Jacksonians gave rise to the greatest Jacksonian of all, Abraham Lincoln, a great man who, in the end, transcended parties and constituencies, at enormous cost in human pain and suffering, including his own assassination. Well, conservatives have their own Whig establishment today, people who refuse to support Donald Trump the...(Read Full Article)