Patriotic Party (Stronnictwo Patriotyczne) was a Polish political movement during the Four-Year Sejm of 1788-1792 that sought reforms aimed at bolstering Poland's independence from Russia. The Patriotic Party worked to abolish the magnate- and Russian-dominated Permanent Council and enlarge the Polish Army. The Party's conservative wing, led by Ignacy Potocki and some progressive magnates such as Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, sought alliance with Prussia and advocated opposing King Stanislaw August Poniatowski. The Party's centrists, including Stanislaw Malachowski, wished accommodation with the King. The liberals, led by Hugo Kollataj, looked for support to the townspeople and populace of Warsaw.
In 1790 the King joined the reformers. The Patriotic Party secured adoption of the May 3rd Constitution of 1791 and formed an "Assembly of Friends of the Government Constitution" to defend the reforms already enacted and to promote further, including economic, ones.
After the Russo-Polish war of 1792, the Patriotic Party's principal leaders--Kollataj, Potocki, Malachowski--went abroad, where they prepared the groundwork for the Kosciuszko Uprising of 1794.
The Parti canadien (also Partipatriote) was a political party in what is now Quebec, Canada, that was founded by members of the liberal elite of Lower Canada at the beginning of the 19th century.
Under the leadership of Pierre-Stanislas Bédard, the party campaigned for ministerial responsibility and a responsible government in which the members of the Legislative Council of Quebec would be appointed by the Legislative Assembly's majority party.
At the time, tensions esclated between Britain, and hence her colonies, and were exacerbated by the actions of France who had been the ally behind the Americans during the American Revolutionary War.
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