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They were flattered by a convocation of a representative assembly, on the principles of equality and liberty: an assembly which abolished the hereditary stadtholderate, with all the forms of the preceding constitution, published the declaration of the rights of man, reversed the sentences passed in a previous year against democrats, and recalled all those who had been exiled for their democratical principles.

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The party opposed to the stadtholderate seconded the victorious efforts of the French army, and the revolution and conquest took place simultaneously at Leyden, Amsterdam, the Hague, and

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In vain had Cromwell required of Holland the abolition of the stadtholderate in the house of

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France, in her turn, was finding herself alone, with all Europe against her; scared, and, consequently, active and resolute; the congress of Cologne had broken up; not one of the belligerents desired peace; the Hollanders had just settled the heredity of the stadtholderate in the house of Orange.

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John van Witt was accused of all the misfortunes of the state; the people demanded with loud outcries the restoration of the stadtholderate, but lately abolished by a law voted by the States under the presumptuous title of perpetual edict.

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States, compelled them to appoint the Prince of Orange Captain General and Admiral: he took the oath prescribed by the Perpetual Edict, not to aspire to the stadtholderate, and to reject it, if offered.

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Upon the decease of William III. a general wish to discontinue the stadtholderate was expressed in most of the provinces; those of Holland,

The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands

Prince of Orange: he died in 1711, without having exercised the power of the stadtholderate, except in the province of Frizeland.

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His measures for obtaining the stadtholderate succeeded.

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States, and Stadtholder in England; but it declined gradually; and an attempt by him to obtain the succession to the stadtholderate for John

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