Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat (Library of Religious Biography (LRB))

by James D. Bratt

William I had instituted the blighting church regime of 1816; William II had abdicated too much to Thorbecke and constitutional revision; William III was as weak at statecraft as he was loose in morals; the young Wilhelmina would prove much too uppity, and savvy, for him around his term as prime minister.