Liberalism in the Netherlands started as an anti-monarchical effort spearheaded by the Dutch statesman Thorbecke, who almost single-handedly wrote the 1848 Constitution of the Netherlands that turned
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke in 1852, during his first term as Prime Minister.
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The Netherlands is a sovereign state with a parliamentary representative democracy. A constitutional monarchy, the country is organised as a decentralised unitary state. The Netherlands can be describ
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke (1849–1853; 1862–1866, 1871–1872)
Jan Heemskerk (1874–1877; 1883–1888)
Abraham Kuyper (1901–1905)
Pieter Cort van der Linden (1913–1918)