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The Parti rouge (alternatively known as the ''parti democratique'') was formed in what is now Quebec , Canada , around 1848 by radical French-Canadian s inspired by the ideas of Louis-Joseph Papineau , the '' Institut Canadien De Montréal '', and the reformist movement lead by the Parti Patriote of the 1830s. The party was a successor to the '' Parti Patriote ''. The reformist ''rouges'' did not believe that the 1840 Act Of Union had truly granted a Responsible Government to former Upper and Lower Canada. They advocated important Democratic reforms, Republicanism , separation of the state and the church. They were perceived as Anti-clerical and radical by their political adversaries. Some of its members desired the abolition of the semi- Feudal Seigneurial System of land ownership, although Papineau was himself a seigneur and a vocal defender of the traditional system. They opposed the union of Upper Canada and Lower Canada into the United Province Of Canada , and demanded its termination. When talks for Canadian Confederation began, its members either opposed the idea, or suggested a decentralized confederation. They were opposed to the Ultramontane politics of the Catholic Clergy of Quebec and the Parti Bleu . In 1858, the elected ''rouges'' allied with the Clear Grits in the legislature of the united Province Of Canada . This resulted in the shortest-lived government in Canadian history, falling in less than a day. Not long after, the failure of most of the party's political actions caused its downfall and its more moderate members formed what became the Liberal Party Of Canada . SEE ALSO
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