See also: legislative National Assembly

The legislative National Assembly was the Parlement French established by the Constitution of 1791; it succeeded the constituent National Assembly and was according to on October 1st, 1791 at September 21st, 1792. She was formed new men, the constituent Assembly having decided that none of its members could be eligible, who represented in majority the upper middle-class because of the vote being censitaire.

The legislative National Assembly was divided into three main tendencies.

• most moderate formed the line, approximately 260 constitutional monarchists registered voters with the Club of Breaking into leaf the defender of the royalty against the working class unrest. they did not count any eminent personality, their true chiefs, Joseph Gilbert Motier marquis of Fayette and Antoine Barnave, being apart from the legislative Parliament.
• the left, fewer (136) appointed consisted of deputies members of the Club of the Jacobins or of that of the Cordeliers. For the majority resulting from the cultivated middle-class, followers of the ideas of the Lights, they had as a chief Jacques Pierre Brissot (from where their name of Brissotins, then of Girondins) surrounded by philosophers Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis of Condorcet and several lawyers of Bordeaux, in particular the brilliance speaker Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud. Being wary with regard to Louis XVI, they were in favor of a war against the sovereigns European in order to put Louis XVI to the test but so favorable to the expansion of the idea of freedom in Europe.
• the remainder, 345 deputies, formed the center. Determined to defend the work of the Revolution, they voted generally on the left.

The Parliament had to face the economic difficulties, financial, with religious agitation and counter-revolutionary animated by the refractory clergy. Its principal acts are:

• November 8th, 1791 : the emigrants are declared guilty of conspiracy, are continued like such, and are punished of dead if they did not return before January 1st, 1792.
• April 20th, 1792 : declaration of war to the emperor François II. Also wanted by the court - Louis XVI hoped on the military failures to take again in hand the country -, the declaration of war in Austria, voted unanimously less seven votes (of which that of Maximilien de Robespierre) inaugurated under the legislative Parliament a conflict which was to last, with short respites, 23 years, until the Bataille of Waterloo (June 18th, 1815).
• May 26th : deportation of the ecclesiastics who refuse to subject to the civil Constitution clergy
• July 11th : the fatherland is declared in danger. Consequently, the meetings of the assembly must be permanent, all the municipalities and all the councils of district and department must sit without interruption, all the national guards must be put moving.
• August 10th : the king is suspended of his functions, and a new assembly, elected by the vote for all, is convened under the name of national Convention. This resolution was voted after the revolutionary days of June 20th, 1792 and especially of August 10th, 1792

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See too

• List of the members of the legislative Parliament by alphabetical department

• List of the members of the legislative Parliament of 1791-1792
• List of the presidents and vice-presidents of the legislative Parliament
• Distinguished under the Revolution