Constituent Power in France: The Revolution and its Consequences

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Abstract This chapter shows how the impact of the French Revolution has reverberated across two centuries of French constitutional history: from formal constitutional revision, referenda, and appeals to the idea of the Nation, to tumult, coups d'état, and revolutionary insurrection. In particular, it argues that influenced by the work of Sieyès, the French developed a powerful sense that the nation is represented in the National Assembly, and that it is through the claims and counter-claims associated with that idea that we can make sense of the trajectory of major constitutional change.

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