Middle Class Today. 3 cints
Sunday: 1792
Tennis court oath good or bad? Special points of interest:
Inside this issue: Tennis Court Oath
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The Guillotine
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The Guillotine con...
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The National Assembly
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The National Assembly con...
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Letter to he Editor
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Reign of Terror
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Refusing to be held down by their King any longer, the deputies did not break up. Instead they moved their meeting to a nearby indoor tennis court. A debate quickly ensued as to how the Third Estate could protect themselves from those in positions of authority; those who wanted to destroy them. Some deputies believed that they should retreat to Paris where the people would be more likely to protect them from the King's army. Mounier warned that such a step would be blatantly revolutionary and politically dangerous. Therefore, Mounier proposed that the Third Estate adopt an oath of allegiance. The proposed oath was to read
that they would remain assembled until a constitution had been written, meeting wherever it was required and resisting pressures form the outside to disband. The proposal was a success. It was promptly written and signed by 577 members of the Third Estate. Later, the document was named the Tennis Court Oath. In 1789, in a desperate attempt to address France's economic crisis, Louis XVI assembled the Estates-General, a national assembly that represented the three "estates" of the French people—the nobles, the clergy, and the commons. The Estates -General had not been assembled since 1614, and its deputies drew up long lists of
grievances and called for sweeping political and social reforms. I think that we have the right to be in the same consul as the other Estates. But the king wants us to be isolated from the others in the voting. So we have the right as a fin.
The Guillotine. Today’s current news presents a new form of capital punishment introduced in today’s year of 1792 called the “Guillotine”. The Guil-
lotine was invented by Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotine. Guillotine says this is a machine that would satisfy many needs and it is efficient,
humane, and democratic. This device is a tall frame with an angled blade held at the top, and then the person being executed