Abstract

The Revision of the Dutch Constitution

This article presents information about the revision of the constitution of the Netherlands. The new Constitution recognizes the absolute equality of sectarian and Government schools, which means that the costs of either education are defrayed from the public revenue. Tip to now sectarian schools depended mainly on private endowments, to which the State added a subsidy on condition that the standard of education conformed to the rules laid down by the Government for state and municipal schools. Thus the founding of sectarian schools was left to private enterprise, so that the privileged status which Liberal legislation had given to Government education might be said to act as an obstacle against the development of free teaching on denominational lines.