Junto
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THE, an English Whig min- 3 istry in the reign of William III., the chief members of which were Admiral , Lord Wharton, and , the great financier. This was the first ministry ever made of one and the same party politics. It was the sug- JUPITER Robert, Earl of Sunderland, throne, holding in one hand thunderbolts ready to be III. Also a club formed by hand thunderbolts hurled, and in the other a Franklin, for mutual improveand in the other a scepter of cypress, while the eagle stands with expanded politics, and natural hile the eagle stands wings at his feet. White, the color , as well as the social wellat his feet. White, of the day, was sacred to him being of man, were the main subjects discussed. It continued for was sacred to him. For Jupiter Ammon, see AMMON. about 30 Bee AMMON. In astronomy, the largest planet of the Largest planet of the solar system. Its diameter at the equaameter at the equa- JUPATI (jö-pä-te') PALM, Raphia tor is nearly 90,000 miles, and the distance miles, and the distædigera, a fine Brazilian palm. The from pole to pole is over 84,000 pole is over 84,000 leaf-stalks, which are 12 to 15 feet long, are used miles. Its bulk is 1,300 times that of the earth, but 300 times that of the for building houses and making its density is only one-fourth that of the earth. The is only one-fourth average dis- The average distance of Jupiter from the sun is from the sun is
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's 1921 account of the Whig Junto still stands in outline: Somers, Montagu (Halifax), Wharton and Russell (Orford) did dominate William III's government in the 1690s, and historians still treat it as an early instance of ministers bound by shared party allegiance, though most now hesitate over the claim that it was "the first ministry ever made of one and the same party politics" and place the mature cabinet system later, under Walpole. The Philadelphia Junto that Franklin founded in 1727 has left the more visible legacy: it spawned the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1731, which is still open as a research library, and fed into the American Philosophical Society of 1743. The main shift is in the word itself, which in ordinary modern usage has been largely swallowed by the Spanish-derived "junta" and its association with military governments.
Written for this edition, 2026.