Part 2 (A) of Our Struggle in the States General contains numerous extensive citations from Kuyper’s career and reprints in full two articles and two asterisms about the struggle to expand the franchise. The parliamentary address that Kuyper made in the Second Chamber about Van Houten’s draft suffrage reform bill for the regulation of the franchise and the nomination of representatives to the Second Chamber (see 1896.06, pp. 1082–1086) is reprinted on pages 223–236. Three remarks (see 1896.06, pp. 1133–1134) at the conclusion of parliamentary debate about this draft legislation, which lasted from May 12 to June 19, 1896, follow on page 240. Kuyper argued for “householder suffrage,” based on the representation of families and not individuals.

The author of this volume also published a brief comment that Kuyper had printed beneath a letter to the editor sent to De Standaard by A.F. de Savornin Lohman. The struggle over how to expand the franchise drove these two leading figures of the Anti-Revolutionary movement apart. Kuyper’s reaction to De Savornin Lohman (pp. 137–139) is reprinted from De Standaard 21 (1892), no. 6323, October 19, 1892. The other article (pp. 159–163) is reprinted from De Standaard 22 (1893), no. 6489, May 3, 1893. The two asterisms also relate to the suffrage question. The first, “Ongrondwettig” [Unconstitutional] (pp. 164–166), is reprinted from De Standaard 22 (1893), no. 6489, May 3, 1893. The second, “Partijeenheid” [Party unity] (pp. 189–190), is reprinted from no. 6675, December 8, 1893. Finally, the memorandum cited in 1912.09 is included in its entirety (pp. 259–264).