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sembly. After the refusal of the upper orders to meet with them, 

 those deputies whose credentials had been verified on June 13 

 and 14 should declare that the other deputies could receive legal 

 authority only by presenting their credentials to the national as- 

 sembly and by their confirmation in the national assembly. The 

 deputies whose credentials were verified were authorized to or- 

 ganize and constitute themselves, "and they do so by the present 

 resolution, with the powers and the title of assemblee des repre- 

 sentants du pen pie de France; they enter at once into activity as 

 such and proceed consequently to the election of a president and 

 other necessary officers. . . . Resolved that by constituting 

 themselves as an active assembly and with the powers of assem- 

 blee des representants du peuple de France, the assembly does not 

 intend to put any obstacles in the way of the much-desired union 

 of the other deputies with the representants du peuple dans V as- 

 semblee national/' 1 "Resolved that the assemblee des represen- 

 tants du peuple de France will occupy itself, without any relaxa- 

 tion and with all the speed of which it is capable, with plans in 

 order to aid the great and noble efforts of the king and to satisfy 

 the expectation of his people for the welfare of the kingdom, by 

 communicating directly to his majesty various measures which 

 he shall esteem most proper to fill this end ; but it shall never 

 recognize in the deputies of the privileged classes, no matter how 

 many there are, any veto, that is, any right of opposition by sep- 

 arate deliberation taken outside of the national assembly to any- 

 thing that shall be judged necessary for the general well-being of 

 France." 



"Whereas any taxes, that is to say, any levy of funds for the 

 public needs, under whatever form or name the levy may be es- 

 tablished, may not legally exist without the express consent of 

 the people by its representatives in the states general and only 



x Courtier de Provence, Lettre XI. Resolution four reads: "R'esolu 

 qu'en se constituant en la forme et qualite d'assemblee des representants 

 du peuple de France, l'assemblee n'entend point mettre d'obstacles a la 

 reunion si desiree des autres deputes avec les representants du peuple dans 

 l'assemblee nationale, qu'elle sera tou jours prete a les regevoir aussi-tot 

 qu'ils temoigneront le desir de se joindre a eux dans l'unique qualite que 

 leur assigne la raison et l'interet national, et de se faire legalement recon- 

 naitre en l'assemblee nationale, par la verification de leurs pouvoirs." 



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