On 18 March the States-General sent a detailed peace proposal to the English Parliament, but it replied on 11 April by reiterating the same demands that had put off Pauw in June the previous year, to be accepted before negotiations were even to begin.

Dutch Arminianism was originally articulated in the Remonstrance ( 1610 ), a theological statement signed by 45 ministers and submitted to the States-General of the Netherlands.

Encouraged by this promise ( whatever it was worth ) the States-General agreed to release the Danish contingent of seven battalions and 22 squadrons as a reinforcement.

Marlborough wrote an appeal to the Duke of Württemberg, the commander of the Danish contingent – " I send you this express to request your Highness to bring forward by a double march your cavalry so as to join us at the earliest moment …" Additionally, the King in Prussia, Frederick I, had kept his troops in quarters behind the Rhine while his personal disputes with Vienna and the States-General at The Hague remained unresolved.

In 1791, the company's stock was bought by the Dutch government, and on 1 January 1792, all territories previously held by the Dutch West India Company reverted to the rule of the States-General of the Dutch Republic.

* Limburg of the States ( 1648 – 1794 ), territories controlled by the Dutch States-General, see Generality Lands

He enraged Elizabeth by accepting the post of Governor-General from the Dutch States-General.

The idea of a feudal state or period, in the sense of either a regime or a period dominated by lords who possess financial or social power and prestige, became widely held in middle of the 18th century, thanks to works such as Montesquieu's De L ' Esprit des Lois ( 1748 ; published in English as The Spirit of the Laws ), and Henri de Boulainvilliers ’ s Histoire des anciens Parlements de France ( 1737 ; published in English as An Historical Account of the Antient Parliaments of France or States-General of the Kingdom, 1739 ).

* March 20 – The United East India Company is established by the United Provinces States-General in Amsterdam, with the stated intention of capturing the spice trade from the Portuguese.

The figure of 60 guilders comes from a letter by a member of the board of the Dutch West India Company, Pieter Janszoon Schagen, to the States-General in November 1626.

The prince refused this and on 25 February a compromise was reached: an appointment by the States-General of the Netherlands for one summer, followed by a permanent appointment on his twenty-second birthday.

Meanwhile, William had written a secret letter to Charles in January 1672 asking his uncle to exploit the situation by exerting pressure on the States-General to appoint William stadtholder.

In the Fall of 1795 the States-General started to work on a procedure to peacefully replace itself, " by constitutional means ", with a National Assembly that would possess full executive, legislative and constituent powers.

Like the old revolutionary States-General, the new National Assembly contained radically opposed parties: the unitary democrats, led by Pieter Vreede, Johan Valckenaer, and Pieter Paulus, and the federalists, such as Jacob Abraham de Mist and Gerard Willem van Marle.

The Second Chamber of the States-General of the Netherlands had 110 members, of which 55 were chosen by the north and 55 were chosen by the south.

These latter were governed directly by the States-General ( Staten-Generaal in Dutch ), the federal government.

The States-General of the United Provinces were in control of the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) and the Dutch West India Company ( WIC ), although some shipping expeditions were initiated by some of the provinces, mostly Holland and / or Zeeland.

Amendments to the constitution must be approved by both Houses of the States-General ( Staten Generaal ) twice.

In 1596, disappointed by the failure of previous expeditions, the States-General announced they would no longer subsidize similar voyages – but instead offered a high reward for anybody who successfully navigated the Northeast Passage.

Accordingly, the States-General decided on 3 March 1652 to expand the fleet by hiring and equipping 150 merchant ships as ships of war to allow effective convoying against hostile English actions.

Cromwell again put forward his plan for a political union between the two nations, but this was rejected by the States-General on 21 October, so emphatically that now for the first time Cromwell came to understand that the Dutch hadn't the slightest inclination to join the Commonwealth.

The war ended on 5 April 1654 with the signing of the Treaty of Westminster ( ratified by the States-General on 8 May ), but the commercial rivalry was not resolved, the English having failed to replace the Dutch as the world's dominant trade nation.

This left many cities in Holland over-garrisoned, and these companies of mercenaries were given in the service of the States-General allowing the establishment of garrisons in the Southern provinces ( e. g. in Mechelen, Antwerp, Brussels and Maastricht ), and fighting Hierges from Utrecht and the Germans of Nicholas von Polweiler from around Roermond The interest of the States of Holland became evermore focussed on the interest of the Northern provinces, and in spite of warnings of Orange about advances of Parma in Brabant, Holland formalised the defensive Union of Utrecht with its eastern and northern neighbors, on 23 January 1579.

On 30 April the States-General ignored this and asked for negotiations to begin in a neutral country ; on 23 May Cromwell, having dissolved the pro-war Rump Parliament, responded that he would receive Dutch envoys in London ; on 5 June the States-General decided to send them.

In the end Cromwell gave in, on 22 April 1654 the States-General accepted and peace was declared on 8 May 1654 with the signing of the Treaty of Westminster, in which the Dutch at least agreed to respect the Navigation Acts — although in practice they never did.

A treaty of amity and commerce was however concluded with the Americans in October, 1782, after John Adams, who succeeded Henry Laurens, had managed to obtain diplomatic recognition of the American republic from the States-General in April, 1782.

On 22 April 1745, he was promoted to Major-General ; on 24 June 1746, to Lieutenant-General of Cavalry, and, on 2 November 1748, to Lieutenant-General of Cavalry for the States-General of the Netherlands.

Tasman called them Staten Landt, after the States-General of the Netherlands, and that name appeared on his first maps of the country.

Tasman called them Staten Landt, after the States-General of the Netherlands, and that name appeared on his first maps of the country.

The States-General decide in United Assembly whether the state of emergency must be maintained, immediately after its declaration and as often as they see fit afterwards ( Subarticle 3 ).

The embalmed body of Berkeley, after being displayed in The Hague, was later returned to England under a truce, accompanied by a letter of the States-General praising the Admiral for his courage.

De Ruyter's popularity had grown after his heroic return and, most importantly, his affiliation lay with the States-General and Johan de Witt in particular.

The States-General met in December, shortly after the death of Francis II and the succession of his younger brother Charles IX.

His reputation and the influence of Sir William Boswell, the English resident, with the States-General procured his election in 1644 to the chair of mathematics in Amsterdam, after an earlier attempt immediately after Martin van den Hove left for Leiden had failed.

In fact, after the departure of Leicester the States of the several provinces and the States-General conducted business as usual.

King William I had appointed him a member for life of the First Chamber of the States-General in 1839 ( which supplemented his income for a while ), but after life memberships of that Senate were abolished by the constitutional reform of 1848 he lost that income also.

To be eligible to be elected it is necessary to be of Dutch nationality, to be over eighteen in age and not to have been excluded from the right to vote ( Article 56 ); there are also certain incompatibilities of function ( Article 57 ), the most important of which is that a minister not belonging to a demissionary cabinet cannot be a member of the States-General, a stark contrast with the situation in United Kingdom or Germany.

The sessions of the States-General are public ( Article 66 ), but the session will be secret ( In camera ) when the House in question so decides ( Subarticle 3 ) which can be proposed by a tenth of the quorum or the President, on which proposal the doors are closed immediately for the vote ( Subarticle 2 ).

Charles now ordered the intriguer George Downing, the new ambassador in The Hague, to demand that the admirals responsible would be severely punished, which the States-General of the Netherlands refused.

A report of his trial was published in the Netherlands, in 15 volumes, in 1665-67, in spite of the remonstrances which Colbert addressed to the States-General.

He then induced the council to call the assembly of notables, which met at Chateau Fontainebleau in August 1560 and agreed that the States-General ( a council of clergy, nobles and commons ) should be summoned.

It was the dispute between Philip the Fair and Pope Boniface VIII which led to the States-General of 1302 ; the king of France desired that, in addition to the Great Officers of the Crown of France, he receive the counsel from the three estates in this serious crisis.

This amounted to needing authorization from the States-General, which only granted these subsidies temporarily for fairly short periods.

He was alarmed, however, by the decision of the States-General to combine clergy, aristocracy, and commoners into a single legislative body, which became the National Constituent Assembly.

He was forced to suspend the Cour plenière which had been set up to take the place of the parlement, and to promise that the States-General should be summoned.

He was ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the States-General from 1709 to 1711, taking part during these years in the negotiations which preceded the conclusion of the Treaty of Utrecht.

* The Estates-General, also known as States-General ( Etats-Généraux ) – The traditional tricameral legislature of the ancien régime, which had fallen into disuse since 1614.

In March, 1665, the Duke of York was granted a Royal colony which included New Netherland and present-day Maine. The New Netherland claim included western parts of present-day Massachusetts ( to an extent that varied depending on whether the reference was the States-General claim of all lands as far east as Narragansett Bay or the Treaty of Hartford negotiated by the English and Dutch colonies in 1654 but not recognized by either the Dutch or English governments ) putting the new province in conflict with the Massachusetts charter.

The assassination for a while put the States of Holland in disarray, which left the initiative to the much diminished States of Flanders and Brabant in the States-General.

The latter ( and many contemporary foreign observers and later historians ) often argued that the confederal government machinery of the Netherlands, in which the delegates to the States and States-General constantly had to refer back to their principals in the cities, " could not work " without the unifying influence of an " eminent head " ( like a Regent or Governor-General, or later a stadtholder ).

On instructions from Madrid, therefore the Archdukes secretly declared in March 1607 that they were willing to negotiate a peace with the States-General, as representatives of free lands over which they made no claim.

These were the members of the several secrete besognes ( secret committees ) to which the States-General more and more entrusted the conduct of diplomatic and military affairs.

The States-General therefore offered him the sovereignty of the Netherlands, which he accepted by the Treaty of Plessis-les-Tours.

The rebellious States-General decided on 14 June 1581 to officially declare the throne vacant, because of Philip's behavior, hence the Dutch name for the Act of Abjuration: " Plakkaat van Verlatinghe ", which may be translated as " Placard of Desertion.

The Act relieved all magistrates of their previous oaths of allegiance to Philip, and prescribed a new oath of allegiance to the States of the province in which they served, according to a form prescribed by the States-General.

At the national level, legislative power is invested in the States-General ( Staten-Generaal ), which is bicameral.

It was for these reasons that the Company proposed the Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions, which the States-General ratified on June 7, 1629.