"The happy revolution which we have just brought to a glorious conclusion under the visible auspices of God has placed the supreme power in our hands. By virtue of this power we have declared ourselves to be free and independent and have deprived and dismissed the former duke, Joseph II, from all sovereignty..."
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Rowen, Herbert H. (1972). The Low Countries in Early Modern Times. London: Macmillan. OCLC 528290. Declaration of Independence, 20 December 1789.
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