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French Revolution (National Assembly (Contributions (Allowed peasants and…

- - - - King Louis XVI grants twice the representation, same number of votes
        
        Third Estate still refuses
        
        Third Estate begins to meet separately
- - - - 250 Members
      - Members must be at least 40 years old
      - held the power to accept or veto the proposed legislation
    - - 500 Members
      - Members must be at least 30 years old
      - Law-making body
  - - - Had no funds to enforce the laws
      - Inflation, no one had money
      - Fought an undeclared war against the Americans who refused to pay their debts after the American Revolution
  - - - Corrupt and immoral politician who helped with fall of Maximillien Robespierre
      - Called upon Bonaparte to use force to end counter-revolution
      - Ensued "Whiff of Grapeshot" (13 Vendemaire) , a war between revolutionary and royalist troops
- - - - The Assembly contained 745 deputies. Almost half were Jacobin republicans while the rest were Feuillants (constitutional monarchists) and political moderates.
      - Most working class citizens were not entitled to cast a vote for the new legislature.
        
        This exclusion outraged the radical sections and democrats in the Jacobin club, many of who favoured universal suffrage.
      - It was elected by ‘active citizens’: those affluent enough to pay a sizeable amount of taxatio
    - - In late September 1791, Louis XVI gave his assent to the new constitution, pledging to “maintain it at home, defend it abroad and cause its execution by all the means at my disposal”
      - Power of veto
    - - The war had a critical war and its impact in France, particularly in Paris, created radicalism that eventually toppled the monarchy and rendered the Legislative Assembly redundant
        
        In September 1792 it was replaced by the National Convention.
      - The Legislative Assembly replaced the National Constituent Assembly, which by September 1791 had completed most of the work for which it was convened.
      - The Legislative Assembly’s most significant measure was its declaration of war against Austria (April 20th 1792)