Talk:List of Stadtholders of the Netherlands (Washington Shot at Murdering Town!)

The Stadtholders of the Republic of the United Netherlands was in fact a hereditary position... but officialy it was an elected function. In the Netherlands a large population of the people where not very pro-Orange in the end of the 18th century... this could have naturally pushed the United Netherland into a real republic...

With Napoleon not creating the Batavian Republic (intruder from outside) but the people creating a Dutch Republic could well have pushed the Orange's from the Stadtholdership and making the Stadtholdership into a real (federal) President. This kind of loos republic could have been an example for other semi-republics like Venice and Florence to grow into real republics. this could have exported an other kind of republicanism then the French one an creating republics in the Holy Roman Empire.--83.117.110.67 14:25, 24 March 2006 (UTC)