Editing Kyösti Kallio (section)

===Formation of the republic===
During the debates over the form of the new state in 1918, Kallio resigned from the senate because he supported a [[republic]] instead of [[constitutional monarchy]]. Eventually, the [[monarchism|monarchist]] stand lost, and he returned to the Cabinet to become [[prime minister]]. He was a reformist who emphasized education, settlement, and land reform. His greatest achievement was "[[Lex Kallio]]" in 1922, legislation allowing the state to buy land to encourage new settlements, and to let the former tenant farmers and other landless rural people buy small farms (see, for example, Seppo Zetterberg et al., ed., "Suomen historian pikkujättiläinen").