HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jacobin
5 Oct 2017
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From 1789 1791, the national assembly worked on a constitution for the new regime. While recognizing the civil rights for all french citizens, effectively transferred political power from the monarchy and the privileged estates to the general body of propertied citizens: the former nobility remained as individuals without titles or privileges. At the center, the constitution created a limited monarchy with a clear separation of powers: real sovereignty lay in the legislative branch, which would consist of a single house (legislative. The king was to name and dismiss his ministers, but was given only a delaying veto over legislations: if a bill passed the assembly in 3 successive years, it"d become a law even without royal approval. In delegations to the assembly and in pamphlets women"s rights activists demanded suffrage for women without success. France was divided into 83 administrative departments of roughly the same size: each department would have exactly the same institutions.
