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The Charter (Statuut) for the Kingdom represents a de-colonization scheme devised in the 1950s. Rather than separating from what was left of the Dutch colonial empire, the overseas territories of Suriname, in South America, and Curacao, a group of island territories in the Caribbean Sea later renamed Netherlands Antilles, placed their relations with the Netherlands...
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The Congress of Vienna insisted on the creation of a strong buffer state against post Napoleonic France. Therefore the Southern Netherlands, roughly today’s Belgium, were merged into the new Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815. The Kingdom became known as the ‘United Netherlands’. The Kingdom’s Constitution was amended accordingly by referendum, albeit with limited suffrage...
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A discussion of the constitutional system of the Netherlands requires a preliminary definition of what exactly is meant by ‘the Netherlands’. In its popular use, the Netherlands is a state in Western Europe, north of Belgium, west of Germany, along the coast of the North Sea. Its present-day constitution dates back to 1814/1815, when after...
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The first modern political entity that emerged in the territory roughly corresponding to the present-day Netherlands was the United Provinces created by the Union of Utrecht in 1579. Via the Union, which was a treaty primarily on military cooperation, the seven northerly provinces of the lowlands – Friesland, Groningen, Holland, Utrecht, Overijssel, Zeeland and the...
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Formally, the Constitution in force today is still the Grondwet for the Kingdom of the Netherlands of 1815. In practice, however, the document is often referred to as the ‘Constitution of 1848’ or as the ‘Constitution of 1983’. These two years saw constitutional amendments so far-reaching that they effectively produced new constitutional texts. The 1848...
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