To the people of Fontenay-le-Comte,
I thank you all for having provided me with the opportunity to represent you in the National Assembly. In the past few months, I had listened to and voted on each proposition with only your best interest in mind. Despite my efforts, not only have we lost the National Assembly, we have lost our beloved country of France to Austro-Prussia. Despite the loss of our country, I write to you in good faith that the invasion and takeover of France will in fact greatly benefit you all.
After receiving letters from a number of you, I realized that most of you were upset with the National Assembly and concerned with the state of France as a country. Over and over again, your own government had voted against your wishes. Most notably, it had coerced the Catholic Church to subjugate its powers to the government, directly violating God’s Will. I understand that for all of you, stability and religion continue to be at the forefront of your concerns.
With the events that have recently transpired in our country, the monarchy has been reinstated to their former positions of power. As a result, the …show more content…
Rather, the power comes from a social contract forged between the government and the people, reminiscent of the National Assembly’s embodiment of the general will. In his seminal work The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau introduces the social contract as something in which “each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will; and in a body we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole” (Rousseau, 7). By embracing the social contract of the national state, the monarchy will reflect the general will of the people, including both the revolutionaries and the clergy members that the National Assembly had refused to
I thank you all for having provided me with the opportunity to represent you in the National Assembly. In the past few months, I had listened to and voted on each proposition with only your best interest in mind. Despite my efforts, not only have we lost the National Assembly, we have lost our beloved country of France to Austro-Prussia. Despite the loss of our country, I write to you in good faith that the invasion and takeover of France will in fact greatly benefit you all.
After receiving letters from a number of you, I realized that most of you were upset with the National Assembly and concerned with the state of France as a country. Over and over again, your own government had voted against your wishes. Most notably, it had coerced the Catholic Church to subjugate its powers to the government, directly violating God’s Will. I understand that for all of you, stability and religion continue to be at the forefront of your concerns.
With the events that have recently transpired in our country, the monarchy has been reinstated to their former positions of power. As a result, the …show more content…
Rather, the power comes from a social contract forged between the government and the people, reminiscent of the National Assembly’s embodiment of the general will. In his seminal work The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau introduces the social contract as something in which “each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will; and in a body we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole” (Rousseau, 7). By embracing the social contract of the national state, the monarchy will reflect the general will of the people, including both the revolutionaries and the clergy members that the National Assembly had refused to