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be obligatory on all the bailliages when they have been passed by 

 all without exception. "^^^ 



Amendments to this motion were made by Biauzat, Lally- 

 Tolendal, and Bousmard. The amendment by Biauzat was to the 

 effect that no deputy, unless forced to do so by necessity, should 

 ask for change in his instructions and that the assembly should 

 authorize and enjoin its members to deliberate according to the 

 dictates of their conscience. ^"^^ The amendments of Lally-Tolendal 

 and Bousmard were to the effect that a certain time, the shortest 

 possible, should be granted to the bearers of imperative instruc- 

 tions for rectification of their mandates. In the meantime, the 

 assembly should devote itself to preliminary discussions.^^^ 



Motions were made by Barere, the Archbishop of Bordeaux 

 and Creniere on July 7, and by the president of the assembly and 

 Abbe Sieyes on July 8. The motion of Barere was that the 

 " limited and imperative dispositions urged in the instructions of 

 some of the deputies should be declared null and powerless to 

 stop operations, except for the deputies who did not feel suffi- 

 ciently relieved by this decree from voting as they had been 

 advised."^^* The motion of the Archbishop of Bordeaux was 

 that no imperative instruction could stop the activity of the as- 

 sembly and that the mandates would be submitted to the wish of 

 the majority. At the same time the members were to declare 

 that no deputy would be admitted who did not intend to submit 

 to the majority.^^^ 



Clermont-Tonnerre ended the debate on July 7 by stating that 



161 Assemhlce nationale, I, 391 ; Courrier dc Provence, I, 17th letter, 26. 



^^^ Assemblee nationale, I, 392; Bulletins de I'assemhlee nationale, July 

 7; Biauzat, Sa vie et sa correspondance, II, 164; Point du jour, I, 126. 



^^^ Assemblee nationale, I, 397, 399; Point du jour, I, 133, 137; Journal 

 de Paris, No. 190, 855 (July 9) ; Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 168, in speaking 

 of Bousmard, says : " II a ete durement improuve, tandis que M. de To- 

 lendal, qui, . . . avait dit la meme chose, a ete fortement applaudi " ; 5m/- 

 letins de I'assemhlee nationale, July 7. 



"^^^ Point du jour, I, 131. 



'^^^ Bulletins de I'assemhlee nationale, July 7; Assemblee nationale, I, 

 402. The bulletins do not say that the archbishop presented a motion, but 

 say that he spoke. 



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