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were passed in the assembly;^'* constituents not to be bound by 

 decrees made during the time that their representatives had no 

 vote;^^ protest against all decrees contrary to the wishes of the 

 constituents f^ decrees which were prejudicial to the nobles of the 

 several bailliages were not binding;" protest against all done in 

 the assembly till the right to vote was granted by the con- 

 stituents.^^ 



Protests were also made against any change in the constitu- 

 tion^^ or any change which was not made by the vote of the 

 separate orders.'^" 



While apparently the clergy had no intention of protesting on 

 the morning of June 30, it is evident that on this question, as 

 much as on the question of joining the assembly, they followed 

 the example of the nobles. On July i and July 2 groups of 

 clergy presented declarations concerning their appearance in the 

 assembly and insisting on the vote by head. A far more im- 

 portant step was taken on July 2 when the Cardinal de la Roche- 

 foucauld read reservations made by the minority of the clergy in 

 which they assumed that they constituted the entire order. The 

 reserves stated that "the members of the clergy, always desiring 

 to give to His Majesty some mark of respect and confidence, 

 justly impatient to give themselves over to the discussions of 

 aflfairs of great interest, on which the happiness of the nation 

 depends, have decided to unite with the two orders of the nobility 

 and the third estate in the common hall in order to act on affairs 

 of general utility, thus conforming with the declarations of the 

 king, without prejudice of the rights which belong to the clergy, 

 in conformity with the constitutive laws of the monarchy, to 

 assemble and to vote separately ; a right they do not wish to 

 abandon, nor can abandon, in the present session of the states- 



54Nos. 20, 59, 62; 44, 45, 49, 53, 56; 3, 47, 9, 14, 15, 16, 20, 28, 29, 31, 33, 

 34, 35. 38 ; 27, 39, 47, 64, 65, 66. 



55 Nos. 50, 58. 



56 Nos. 2, 5, 10, 14, 22. 



57 Nos. 17, 38, 44, 58. 



58 Nos. 9, 10, 42, S3, 54, 73. 



59 Nos. 7, 38. 

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