Anti-Revolutionary Party

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The Anti-Revolutionary Party (Dutch: Anti-Revolutionaire Partij, ARP) was a Protestant conservative and Christian democratic political party in the Netherlands between 1879 and 1980. The ARP was founded in 1879 by Abraham Kuyper, a neo-Calvinist theologian and minister. Under his leadership, the party sought to represent the Orthodox Reformed "small folks" (kleine luyden) and obtain equal funding for religious schools. In the 1880s they achieved electoral success and became a major political force. Alongside the Catholics, they served three terms in government between 1888 and 1918. In 1898, a number of conservative members split from the party over its support for the extension of suffrage, and eventually formed the Christian Historical Union (CHU). In the interwar period the ARP was continuously in government, most prominently under the leadership of Kuyper's successor Hendrikus Colijn, who served as prime minister between 1925 and 1926, and again between 1933 and 1939. In the postwar...

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