Committee of Public Safety

Paris was plagued by food riots and mass hunger. The National Convention then created the Committee of Public Safety to protect the newly established republic against foreign attacks and internal rebellion. The Committee of Public Safety exercised virtual dictatorial power over the French government. Maximilien Robespierre was a Jacobin in the Estates General, who took over executive power of the Committee. Robespierre believed that terror was a necessary evil, to obtain “liberty and equality.”…

absolute monarch was Thomas Hobbes with the infamous Leviathan where he argued that man is not fit to govern itself. Due to the failure of both a constitutional monarchy and a representative democracy, which resulted in disorder in France, the Committee of Public Safety began its control over France. Initially, Mountain leader Maximilien Robespierre was against the execution and capital punishment, but then after events like the September Massacre, his opinions swung to the other side of the…

prolonged political and social conflict that the people of France were unhappy with. After King Louis XVI’s execution in 1793, the Reign of Terror began as the revolutionary government was being controlled by the Committee of Public Safety. “Led by Maximilien de Robespierre, the Committee passed a number of harsh laws designed to intimidate or eliminate anyone who disagreed with them” (Cranny 221). Rather than trying the settle down the chaos of the struggling citizens morally, Robespierre…

was neither an executive nor a judicial branch. In Novemember 1777 the draft of the articles that the continental congress submitted to the states for ratification specifically rejected a plan for an executive proposed by James Dickinson and the committee of thirteen the year before. The dickinson draft had provided for a council of state appointed by congress and for other officers for managing the general affairs of the united states. The council would have commanded of the military, exercised…

Background The Institute of Medicine Committee on Public Health Strategies to Improve Health issued a report that distinguished the impacts public health in the United States. The committee determined that in order to improve health outcomes in the United States we will have to alter the way this nation invests in public health. Basically, put more resources toward population-based prevention efforts; population-based prevention requires stable funding for public health departments. Local health…

Louis XVI learns that France is on verge of bankruptcy in 1786. The reason France had so much debt is because they funded the American War of Independence, but America never paid them back. In order to try and save the French economy, Louis XV raised taxes. After multiple failed tax reforms, France continued to go deeper into debt. Over half of France’s annual budget went to paying interest of their increasing debt. Another contributing factor to France’s debt is the fact that they have no…

identify goals and recommended actions necessary to enhance life safety as well as minimize disruption to the community. The initial steps involved in the mitigation planning process include developing a planning committee who will research and understand the basic demographics of the city of Alexandria as well as a review of historical events that have impacted the community. To establish the mitigation plan it is essential that a committee be created to identify the hazards and make…

Appropriations Act, 2014 (Public Law 113-76), provides $75 million for the Comprehensive School Safety Initiative. This Initiative is to be overseen by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) within the Office of Justice Programs (OJP). In implementing this initiative, NIJ is to collaborate with key partners from multiple, relevant disciplines on developing a strategy and model for comprehensive school safety. The goal of the Comprehensive School Safety Initiative is to improve the safety of…

A5. ASPECTS NOT BEING ADDRESSED Some of the potential barriers to suicide prevention include the stigma associated with suicide and suicide ideation, lack of primary prevention strategies and programs. The community does not prioritize primary suicide prevention. It appears as if the community does not apparently understand the concept of primarily suicide prevention. In addition, the community is compliant with school bullying culture, which leaves vulnerable adolescents without a recourse…

September V was the start of La Terreur or the Reign of terror. The first victim was none other than Marie Antoinette, after her husband's death and her sons suspicious disappearance, Lady Antoinette was sentenced and condemned to face the guillotines. Thus the start of La Terreur. Executions were considered a learning experience, and women were encouraged to attend and do knitting while they watched in awe. During the revolution 2,400 lost their lives in Paris, across France the number was a…