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THE political revolution of 1795, which marked the demise of the old Republic of the Seven Provinces and the beginning of the new Batavian Republic, fundamentally changed relations between the State and the various Churches. The idea of the privileged Church — frequently referred to in revolutionary rhetoric as the heerschende (ruling) Church — was relinquished, when that debilitated ‘seven- headed monster of the State’, as the Republic of the Seven Provinces was sometimes called, disappeared.
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© 1981 Uitgeverij Martinus Nijhoff, Lange Voorhout 9, Den Haag
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Bornewasser, J.A. (1981). The Authority of the Dutch State over the Churches, 1795-1853. In: Duke, A.C., Tamse, C.A. (eds) Britain and The Netherlands. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7695-5_8
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