参考答案

正确答案：A
解析：题目考查辉格党的知识。第三段“and though the Whig intelligentsia of the Edinburgh Review and economists in the Smithian tradition，like J．R．MacCulloch and N．W Senior，continued to think of liberty in classical terms．”通过这句话可知，辉格党知识分子支持传统。据此判断，应选择A。