Talk:French Constitution of 1791

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The French constitution was drafted by Michel Debre. Charles De Gaulle was the thinking part of the constitution 65.6.158.205 (talk) 23:30, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

300 people to the guillotine

I removed this sentence, at the end of "Early Efforts":

The Committee, which was ideologically divided, ended up sending over 300 people to the guillotine.

I'm pretty sure that the Monarchien Constitutional Committee didn't have the authority to sentence anyone to death; and the guillotine wasn't even invented yet. If I had to guess, I'd think that maybe the point was that the National Assembly or the National Constituent Assembly were divided? And maybe that some large number of them were eventually executed? If someone can explain this, please feel free to add this sentence back in; I found it really confusing. --ESP (talk) 20:24, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

What did the Constitution actually say?

This entry does not have any section summarizing the content of the 1791 constitution! 128.148.231.34 (talk) 19:40, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Should we distinguish primary and secondary electors?

Luisa Fernanda Garcia Lopez, in an essay on Sieyes in *The Foundations and Traditions of Constitutional Amendment,* says primary electors had only to be 21 and secondary electors 25 -- and "to swear to uphold freedom and equality" (p.126). Jjdavenport99 (talk) 00:34, 19 July 2023 (UTC)