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Reforms of the National Constituent Assembly - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Weakened the secular power of the church but ALSO relived the state of the burden of debt - From Feb 1790 began selling off monastic wealth and property and by June sold off church land
  - - - THE CCC EFECTVILEY MADE THE CHIRCH SUBSERVIANT TO THE STATE - Pope did not support the CCC (he wanted to retain his papal enclave and did not want to jeopardies his chances of retaining territory) and some of the more conservative cleric in the assembly as well as high ranking clergy within France were highly critical
    - - Doubt about Church's support for the CCC led to the assembly to decree on 27 November 1790 that all Clergy "shall swear to be faithful to the nation" (the oath
      - Unless Clerics were prepared to swear this oath they were deprived of their offices and salaries
        
        Effectively a way of determining which clerics were loyal to the revolution and results showed a large amount were not - 7/160 bishops did and 55% of Parish clergy took oath
        
        When the Pope declared against the CCC in the PAPAL BULL 1791 - caused supporters to retract their oath - POPE SUSPENDED THOSE THAT TOOK THE oath
        
        Assembly responded by - Occupying Avignon and annexing it to France - Declaring in November 1791, that all refractory priests were 'counter-revolutionaries' and their comes was stopped and were forbidden from using religious buildings - In April 1792 All forms of RELIGIOUS DRESS WAS BANNED to emphasize the fact that the priests were no more than citizens and from May y 1792 refracotry preists could be deported
    - - CCC helped to DESTROY NATIONAL UNITY AND LED TO COUNTER REVOLUTION AND CIVIL WAR
- - - - Fell into the hands of the Bourgeoisie
    - - Central government had no representation on these councils (decentralization key principle in order to PREVENT ANY POSSIBLE RETURN OF MONARCHIAL ABSOLUTISM)
        
        Council were in charge of law and order within their localities - given a range of duties from the assessment and collection of taxes to the construction of roads - PROVIDED THE BASIS FOR THE REOGRANISATION OF THE CHURCH AND THE JUDICARY
- - - - Torture, branding and hanging forbidden (now guillotine)
      - Former crimes punished by death cut
      - Single national and uniform legal system est
      - Judges and magistrates elected by 'active citizens' - judges and magistrates had to be qualified; judges Court of Appeal elected by the Departments
      - 13 parlements abolished and new Courts of Appeal introduced
      - Criminal cases tried in front of a jury of twelve citizens - men!
      - Accusations, proceedings and judgements open to the public
      - JPs were to hear minor civil cases in each group if communnes
      - Every accused person was to be brought before a judge within 24 hours of arrest
- - - - However insufficent to allow for a reduction in taxation elsewhere particulalry since 1790 NEW WAGE BILL FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATORS, JUDGES AND CLERGYMEN PUT FRENCH FINANCES UNDER FURTHER STRAIN
    - - Difficult to asses these taxes fairly - determined by a quota distrubtued between the departmeents in a decreees of May 1791 - tax burden varied across country - FOR MANY TAX WAS NO LIGHTER JUST DIFFERENTLYU ASSESED
    - - Not very long-term solutions
      - In theory fairer
      - Widening wealth gaps and peasants/workers becoming worse of
      - Less red tape cld mean more productive economy - boosted entrepreneural activities
      - Meant Church wld have less power
      - More internal trade as same currency
      - Emergence of new land-owning bourgeoise - helped agri as sought ways of being more profitable
      - Assignats didn't work - by Aug 1792 were worth 58% of face value, by end of 1794 24%, end of 1796 almost nothing
- - - - Whilst active citizens with a higher tax level had more rights than passive one