The minority, consisting of Holland, Utrecht, and Overyssel, protested against the vote as an outrageous invasion of the rights of each province, as an act of flagrant tyranny and usurpation.
The minority in the States of Holland, the five cities often named, protested against the protest.
The defective part of the Netherland constitutions could not be better illustrated.

The minority of the States of Holland refused to be bound by a majority of the provincial assembly.

The minority of the States-General refused to be bound by the majority of the united assembly.
This was reducing politics to an absurdity and making all government impossible.

It is however quite certain that in the municipal governments a majority had always governed, and that a majority vote in the provincial assemblies had always prevailed.

The present innovation was to govern the States-General by a majority.
Yet viewed by the light of experience and of common sense, it would be difficult to conceive of a more preposterous proceeding than thus to cram a religious creed down the throats of half the population of a country by the vote of a political assembly.