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Constituent Assembly

noun

, French History.
  1. the legislature of France 1789–91.


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Dissolving parliament also means dissolving the constitution-drafting Constituent Assembly.

(His opponents boycotted the election of the constituent assembly that wrote the charter).

After nearly three years of strenuous effort, the Constituent Assembly had come to an end.

The Roman Constituent Assembly discontinues a defense which has become impossible.

All the revolutionaries of the Constituent Assembly were initiated into the third degree.

After the revolution of 1848 he was elected to the Constituent Assembly, but soon resigned that post.

Curates and assistants shall be chosen from ecclesiastics pensioned in execution of the laws of the Constituent Assembly.

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