![]() ![]() Was it Sieyès plan to have a temporary dictatorship? The idea was already in the air since Marat had demanded one in 1793. It was therefore natural for Sieyès to call upon a military man (Joubert had initially been the favoured candidate, but on his death Moreau was to be approached) with the aim of intimidating the two assemblies and forcing them to declare the constitution of the Year III nul and to accept a new one (made by Sieyès) designed to save the Republic. In fact, the authors had written into the constitution a delay of nine years between the initiative for a reform and the reform itself, thus making it almost impossible for it to reformed by legal means. ![]() But that taking of power was justified by the deficiencies of the 1795 constitution. ![]()
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