Editing Anti-Revolutionary Party (section)

===Foundation===
On 3 April 1879, Abraham Kuyper founded the ARP as part of the larger separate orthodox Protestant society within society. It was the first nationally organised political party in the Netherlands. An 1878 petition for [[School struggle (Netherlands)|equal payment for religious schools]] became one of the catalysts for the foundation of the political movement. In 1877, Kuyper had already written "Our Program" in which the political ideals of the ARP were written down (see [[#Ideology and issues|below]]). Around the ARP the separate Protestant society began to grow: many Protestant schools were founded, a Protestant university (the [[VU University Amsterdam|Free University]] was founded in 1880), and a paper (''[[De Standaard (Dutch newspaper)|De Standaard]]''). In 1886, Kuyper broke free from the liberal [[Dutch Reformed Church]] (in Dutch: ''Nederlands-Hervormde Kerk'') to found the [[Reformed Churches in the Netherlands]] in 1892 (in Dutch: ''Gereformeerde Kerken Nederland'').

The ARP had one practical political goal: equalisation of payment between public and religious schools. It had one political strategy: the [[Antithesis (Netherlands)|Antithesis]] between religious and non-religious parties, which meant that he sought to break the cooperation between liberals and Catholics and to create an alliance between Catholics and Protestants.