century.

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Notes:

[1] The name for the dreaded secret Royal warrant of arrest. (SR.)

[2] The initiative rests with the King on one point: war cannot be
decreed by the Assembly except on his formal and preliminary
proposition. This exception was secured only after a violent
struggle and a supreme effort by Mirabeau.

[3] Speech by Lanjuinais, November 7, 1789. "We determined on the
separation of the powers. Why, then, should the proposal he made to
us to unite the legislative power with the executive power in the
persons of the ministers?"

[4] See the attendance of the Ministers before the Legislative
Assembly.

[5] "Any society in which the separation of the powers is not
clearly defined has no constitution." (Declaration of Rights,
article XVI.) - This principle is borrowed from a text by
Montesquieu, also from the American Constitution. In the rest the
theory of Rousseau is followed.

[6] Mercure de France, an expression by Mallet du Pan.

[7] Constitution of 1791, ch. II. articles 5, 6, 7. -- Decree of