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Rather than following the lead of some other foreign-influenced factions and Delegates, the members of the National Pact considered themselves loyal subjects of the [[Apostolic King of Urcea]], and that they abhorred revolution or disloyalty. Instead, the Pact sought gradual reform within existing institutions. Throughout the 19th century's constitutional settlements, the National Pact scored many key victories for the power of the [[Concilium Daoni]], and thus the common people in general, in relation to the King. During this time, in which the party was unofficially known as the '''Party of Order''', the Pact coalesced from a loose coalition into a more unified and disciplined political organization with a clear ideology of modernization and industrialization with liberalization, and the party was led by primarily optimates as well as privilegiata in the commercial sphere. The Party of Order era saw the National Pact support the King against more revolutionary types during the latter half of the 19th Century, a period in which they controlled substantial Daoni majorities. The so-called Party of Order also won elections for all of Urcea's seats in the [[Imperial Diet]] during the period. The 19th century included the period of enmity now referred to by historians as the [[Recess of the Julii]], which lead to the National Pact practicing political abstentionism in the Diet.

By the first full election after the restoration in 1905, the Pact found itself in a Daoni minority for the first time in decades. The Commonwealth Union, which was more progressive on social reforms and had an economic policy in line with newly-formed Catholic teaching, went on to find major success until the [[Second Great War]], in which the Pact managed to regain power. Since the conclusion of the Great War, the National Pact has taken an increasingly neoliberal economic philosophy, a change that lead to the fracturing of the party as a minority broke off and formed separate parties, which sought to pursue Urcea's "traditional [[Crown Liberalism]]". During much of the 20th century and early 21st century, the Pact and the Commonwealth Union were the largest two parties and often formed the Daoni majorities and elect the [[Procurator]]. The Commonwealth Union ceased to exist as a consequence of the [[2015 Urcean political realignment]], leaving the Pact as the nation's largest party. As a part of the realignment, during the lengthy Procuratorship of [[James Dynan]], the party began to take on an activist approach to foreign policy, with support for [[The Deluge]] part of the Pact's official platform. The Pact retains its proud identity as "Crown Liberal", although the meaning of the term has become greatly debated with the advent of its neoliberal laissez-faire approaches to economics. Many of the party's leading supporters of The Deluge departed the party and joined the [[Solidarity Party (Urcea)|Solidarity Party]] in the early 2020s. This move, the cost of the [[Final War of the Deluge]], and the growing authority of the [[Apostolic King of Urcea]] meant that many party leaders have begun to shift thier views against foreign entanglements abroad.