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What secured the permanence of the settlement was less the policy of William than the blunder of the French monarch.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “What secured the permanence of the settlement was less the policy of William than the blunder of the French monarch.”
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Laski argues that the stability of the political settlement was more a result of the French monarch's mistakes than William's policies.
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