The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800

238 Chapter X Much has been said in these later times, at least in America, on the religion of Edmund Burke. It is true that he ...

Two Parliaments Escape Reform 239 eighteenth- century among Independents, Presbyterians, and Baptists. About a sixth of all Engl ...

240 Chapter X ans in the Irish disturbances was well known. In the Association movement of 1780 the Dissenters were very active; ...

Two Parliaments Escape Reform 241 constitution were again set up to public wonder. To the Dissenters’ argument that the two acts ...

CHAPTER XI DEMOCRATS AND ARISTOCRATS— DUTCH, BELGIAN, AND SWISS Do we see in the Austrian Netherlands, or in the United Netherla ...

Democrats and Aristocrats 243 had passed to Aus- tria in 1714. They were loosely attached to the Hapsburg sys- tem, and in firm ...

244 Chapter XI It was the American war that precipitated the abortive revolution known as the Patriot movement.^2 There had been ...

Democrats and Aristocrats 245 people of any consequence in the country. Their class standing could not really be defined economi ...

246 Chapter XI The Americans, on declaring their independence, threw off the British trade regulations and invited direct commer ...

Democrats and Aristocrats 247 The Prince and his supporters, less sensitive on these matters, accused the Am- sterdam merchants ...

248 Chapter XI Provide for the freedom of the press, the one support of your national liberty.... Arm yourselves, elect those wh ...

Democrats and Aristocrats 249 the modern doctrine of people’s government (Volksregering, the word then mainly used for “democrac ...

250 Chapter XI Catholics. Van der Kemp, the Mennonite pastor, once delivered a sermon in uni- form. They were mainly middle clas ...

Democrats and Aristocrats 251 Ages, now demanded that the burghers take part in election of these officials. The council demurre ...

252 Chapter XI people all over Europe were going to obtain representative institutions, that the role of the chief of state shou ...

Democrats and Aristocrats 253 turn. “Our salvation can come only from foreign powers,” the Orangist Van Goens had prophetically ...

254 Chapter XI The Princess of Orange, as the crisis grew, seizing the initiative from her flabby husband, started on a dramatic ...

Democrats and Aristocrats 255 gold, or half a million guilders, as a “free gift” from the rejoicing city of Amster- dam. It must ...

256 Chapter XI wanted no more to happen. The republic drifted. It went to war with France in 1793, with something less than enth ...

Democrats and Aristocrats 257 Belgium belonged to the Austrian monarchy, it was hardly affected by that fact before 1780. Belgiu ...