Orangist faction

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The Orangist faction was a political movement in the Dutch Republic that supported the hereditary leadership and authority of the House of Orange over more republican or oligarchic forms of government.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf political faction
political movement
activeInCentury 17th century
18th century
associatedWithDynasty House of Orange-Nassau
country Dutch Republic
goal maintaining the influence of the House of Orange
strengthening the power of the stadtholder
historicalPeriod Dutch Golden Age
eighteenth-century Dutch Republic
ideology hereditary leadership
monarchism
influencedBy Calvinism in the Dutch Republic
language Dutch
legacy influenced later Dutch monarchist sentiment
mainOpponents States-Party regents
regent oligarchy
notableEvent First Stadtholderless Period
Rampjaar 1672
Second Stadtholderless Period
opposed States Party
republicanism in the Dutch Republic
opposedPolicy decentralized provincial sovereignty
oligarchic regent rule
partOf political history of the Dutch Republic
politicalConflict struggle between stadtholder and regents
politicalPosition conservative
region Provinces of Holland and Zeeland
other provinces of the Dutch Republic
relatedMovement Orangism in the Netherlands
socialBase part of the Dutch nobility
rural populations
urban lower classes
supported House of Orange
supportedOffice stadtholder
supportedPolicy hereditary stadtholderate
strong central executive power
symbol orange color

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