conflict in Drenthe - Beilen, Diever, Noordenveld en Oostermoer vs Zuidenveld en Rolde - 1787

The pamphlet addresses a legal conflict over voting rights in the provincial assembly of Drenthe.
Four Drenthe entities (Beilen, Diever, Noordenveld, and Oostermoer) defended their right to decision-making (majority decision-making).
They faced the majority of the knighthood and the dingspillen of Zuidenveld and Rolde, who held a different stance.

In Drenthe, there was a unique governing model: the States meeting of ridderschap and eigenerfden.
The dingspillen were regional administrative districts, comparable to guilds or market associations.
The pamphlet reflects the tensions between the nobility and the free farmers over political power and voting rights.

The document is a deduction (legal justification or plea), in which the four involved parties defend their right to majority decision-making.
It was introduced during a meeting in Assen, the administrative center of Drenthe.

A dingspil was an old legal area in Drenthe that served as the administrative and legal division of the province.
Elk Dingspil dispatched representatives to the Supreme Court, the Etstoel, and played a role in the administration of the Landscape of Drenthe.

The word comes from 'thing,' a court session that was held several times a year in the Middle Ages.
A 'dingspil' was therefore the area where such court sessions took place.

Deduction regarding the right of consent at the state assembly of the landscape of Drenthe. By the four districts of Beilen, Diever, Noordenveld, and Oostermoer; against the opinion of the majority of the nobility, and the districts of Zuidenveld and Rolde; submitted at the assembly of nobility and freeholders, held in Assen - Meppel, G. Voogd, 1787 - 57 pages - 22 x 15 cm