Dutch States Party

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Dutch States Party
Staatsgezinde partij
IdeologyRepublicanism
Provincial sovereignty
"True Freedom"
Party flag

The Dutch States Party

Patriots after the Orangist revolution of 1747.[c] The States Party was in the ascendancy during the First Stadtholderless Period and the Second Stadtholderless Period
.

Ideological characteristics

The wealthy regenten of the Republic were mostly aligned with the Dutch States Party

Unlike modern political parties, the States Party and the Orangists were not necessarily distinguished by ideology. At the provincial level, choice of sides was driven by the contest for power between members of the Regenten class. Local groups often simply adopted the opposite position taken by their factional opponents, a reality made more complex by the rivalry between individual provinces. There was little explicit ideological coherence, and what there was often changed over time.[1]: 10 

However, since the days of the conflict between

States-General of the Netherlands.[1]
: 15ff. 

The supremacy of the provincial States was first defended by

English protectorate, and later taken up by Hugo Grotius in his De antiquitate reipublicae Batavicae (On the Antiquity of the Batavian Republic).[e] The theme was taken up again during the conflict between stadtholder William II and the States of Holland in 1650, in which first the Prince prevailed, and after his death the States, ushering in the "True Freedom" of the First Stadtholderless Period.[1]
: 17 

The doctrine of the

Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt in his "Deduction"[2] and Pieter de la Court in his the Interest van Holland (Interest of Holland) and De stadthouderlijcke regeeringe in Hollandt ende West-Vrieslandt (History of the stadholders of Holland and West-Friesland). In these works the doctrine was extended into a distinctly anti-monarchical and pro-republican direction as a justification for the de facto abolition of the office of stadtholder in most provinces as "superfluous" and "positively harmful to the general welfare.."[3]
: 758–790 

Notable representatives

Some of the most important representatives of the States Party in the history of the Republic were:

Loevesteiners

1650

First Stadtholderless Period

1650–1672

Second Stadtholderless Period

1702–1747

Notes

  1. ^ Grammatically better would be: "States' Party", but the possessive apostrophe is almost never used in the literature, just like in Dutch States Army.
  2. ^ In the days that there were stadtholders who were not members of that House, the factions did not yet exist.
  3. ^ The States-party regenten were equally opposed to the democratic tendencies among the Patriots as the Orangist regenten.
  4. Loevestein
    , where the leaders of the Oldenbarnevelt faction had been incarcerated)
  5. ^ During their trial for treason the Loevesteiners disputed the competency of the ad hoc court that tried them on the ground that the court had been established by the States-General in an usurpation of the sovereignty of the States of Holland.

References

  1. ^ a b c d Troost, Wout (2005). William III the Stadholder-King: A Political Biography. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  2. ^ Deductie, ofte Declaratie, uyt de Fondamenten der Regieringe, tot justificatie vande Acten van Seclusie, raeckende 't employ vanden Prince van Oraigne (Deduction, or Declaration, from the foundations of the government, as justification of the Act of Seclusion, concerning the employment of the Prince of Orange).
  3. ISBN 0-19-873072-1
    .
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