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22) What has received less attention, however, is an understanding of how formerly dominant parties react when they suddenly lose power and find themselves in the position of being, to borrow from the lexicon of Westminster parliamentarianism, the government's loyal opposition. As Brian Ladd has pointed out, Wallot 'despaired of the difficulty of his task: he had to create a symbol of Germany and German parliamentarianism, when there was no model for either, and little consensus about what they meant'. The edifice of that Whig history which viewed the last Stuarts as a hesitant step in the triumphal progress of parliamentarianism has been sapped and mined by the revisionists of the 1980s and 1990s. |
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