Defense of the Whigs is a political treatise written by John Pendleton Kennedy, an American author and politician, in 1835. The book is a defense of the Whig Party, a political party that emerged in the United States in the 1830s as a response to the policies of President Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party.In the book, Kennedy argues that the Whigs are the true defenders of the Constitution and the principles of limited government, individual...