The Counter Revolution, of June-July 19 



du Galland.^^ Another idea which was generally approved was 

 that the protests were against the decrees of the assembly and 

 that no one had a right to oppose these decrees. This view was 

 likewise adopted by Petion de Villeneuve, Mirabeau, Clermont- 

 Tonnerre, and Mounier. Petion de Villeneuve said that the 

 protests were a proclamation of the declaration of the king on 

 June 23. The king could not hold a lit du justice because when 

 the nation was assembled to make laws there was no power which 

 covild force upon it measures which it had not discussed or con- 

 sented to. These measures were contrary to the action of the 

 assembly on June 23 when the third estate insisted on their 

 former decrees. ^^ Mirabeau thought the assembly would fail 

 both in respect to itself and its constituents by receiving an act in 

 which some members of the states general uttered a wish dif- 

 ferent from that of the assembly and one destructive of all its 

 decrees, " such as no power under the sun, not even the executive 

 had a right to utter."^* He stated that he considered it " astonish- 

 ing that one should be allowed to protest in an assembly of which 

 one is a member, against the rights of that assembly ; that if the 

 sovereignty of the assembly is not recognized, the assembly 

 should not deliberate in the presence of the protestants ; if any 

 one wished to protest he should leave the assembly."®'' Clermont- 

 Tonnerre was less positive than Mirabeau and said that the 

 method of uniting the deputies in a single assembly was of little 

 moment, but the vital point was that they were united and 

 possessed legislative power and that no one had a right to say 

 "je veux" in the assembly or recall past discords.®*' Mounier, 



^2 Point du jour, I, 94. 



^^ Point du jour, I. 92; Courrier de Provence, I, 15th letter, 10; Assem- 

 blee nationale, I, 309; Bulletins de I'asseniblee nationale, July 2. 



^* Courrier de Provence,!, 15th letter, 11 ; Point du jour, I, 93; Duques- 

 noy, Journal, I, 155 ; Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, July 2 ; Assemblee 

 nationale, I, 311 ; Gazette de Leyde, No. 56. 



^^ Proces-verbal, I, No. 12, 3; Courrier de Provence, I, 15th letter, 9; 

 Point du jour, I, 91; Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 154; Journal de Paris, No. 

 185, 832 (July 4) ; Assemblee nationale, I, 306. 



**^ Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 155 ; Point du jour, I, 93 ; Bulletins de I'assem- 

 blee nationale, July 3; Assemblee nationale, I, 312. 



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