[13] Decrees of December 14 and December 22, 1789: "In
municipalities reduced to three members (communes below five hundred
inhabitants), all executive functions shall belong to the mayor
alone."

[14] Could it be that Lenin took note of this and had "it this
translated in Russian and made use of it in his and later in Stalin's
schools for international revolutionaries. It would in any case
have weakened the Bourgeois Capitalist countries. In any case such
measures have been introduced both in the international
organizations and in most Western Democratic Governments after World
War II. (SR.)

[15] This was in the United Nations called 'Rotation' and made the
administration of missions and forces difficult, expensive and
inefficient. This rotation was also used in the Indian and other
armies in order to prevent the officers to reach an understanding or
achieve any power over the troops under their command. (SR.)

[16] Laws of September 23 - October 29, 1790; January 16, 1791.
(Titles II. And VII.) - Cf. the legal prescriptions in relation to
the military tribunals. In every prosecuting or judicial jury one-
seventh of the sworn members are taken from the non-commissioned
officers, and one-seventh from the soldiers, and again, according to
the rank of the accused, the number of those of the same rank is
doubled.

[17] Law of July 28th, August 12, 1791.

[18] Laws of November 24, 1789 (article 52), August 10-14, 1789. -