HUMA 1825 Chapter Notes - Chapter Robespierre: Private Passions, Counter-Revolutionary
1 Nov 2015
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In his speech, robespierre tells king louis" crime as that he has accused people of treason in their support for the revolution just because louis believes the revolution to be criminal. A second crime that robespierre holds the king accountable for is that he mobilizes the hope of the royalists in foreign relations that things will be restore back to. According to robespierre, a trial has to viable options, one of guilt and one of innocence. If louis is deemed innocent, then in comparison the revolution would be called guilty and invalid. This would mean that the people would have no reason to revolt against the king, deeming all their attempts and hard work to create a republic to that point, fruitless. The idea of using legal process obscures the objective because a trial would confuse civil law with the law of the nation which is ultimately international law.
