Robespierre wanted to wipe out every trace of old France to build “A Republic Virtue”
The ideals of the revolution are represented by the Declaration of Rights of both man and of citizens.
The Committee allowed the country to work under duress and threats of the death penalty to work together. Prior to its establishment in 1973, more than 100 thousand deaths occurred among the Frenchmen due to violence.
The Committee of Public Safety were attempting to combat multiple monopolies in order to end the never ending shortage of food through Paris, France.
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The committee allowed for the country to protect the revolution from their enemies through duress and the constant threat of the death penalty. Before the committee was established, more than 100 thousand Frenchman died through other violence that created a need for the committee.
The goal of the Law of suspects was to “round up” and identify everyone in France who was suspected of being enemies of the French Revolution
1. If there was a couple and the wife was killed, her husband would be the first suspect because he would have been closest to the person who died.
2. If there was a gang member in a city and a shooting occurred, the gang member would be a suspect due to past violence.
The law of suspects protected the revolution by arresting potential suspects of people fighting against the revolution throughout France.
I do not agree in the ways that the leaders decided to run the committee, but they were very effective in the way they ran their organization in order to protect their revolution against their enemies. The Committee of Public Safety was in charge of keeping all people suspected of terrorism away from their beloved country. According to The Law of Suspects. “[People] who by their conduct, association, talk or writings have shown themselves to be enemies.” The committee was keeping people who seemed even the slightest of suspicious of treason away from France, which was its major objective in order to keep the revolution