Today's free history lesson, courtesy of Wikipedia:The Tennis Court Oath (French: serment du jeu de paume) was a pivotal event during the French Revolution. The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 out of the 577 members from the Third Estate and a few members of the First Estate during a meeting of the Estates-General of 20 June 1789 in a tennis court near the Palace of Versailles.
On 17 June 1789 this group, led by led by Mirabeau and Abbe Sieyes, began to call themselves the National Assembly,[1] which became the name of the primary French legislative body. On the morning of 20 June the deputies were shocked to discover that the doors to their chamber were locked and guarded by soldiers. Immediately fearing the worst and anxious that a royal coup by King Louis XVI was imminent, the deputies congregated in a nearby indoor real tennis court where they took a solemn collective oath "never to separate, and to meet wherever circumstances demand, until the constitution of the kingdom is established and affirmed on solid foundations."[2]
The deputies pledged to continue to meet until a constitution had been written, despite the royal prohibition. The oath was both a revolutionary act, and an assertion that political authority derived from the people and their representatives rather than from the monarch himself. Their solidarity forced Louis XVI to order the clergy and the nobility to join with the Third Estate in the National Assembly.[3]
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And in my home state we have this !
2 comments:
Ah....but they could do it then. They did not have the IiSA!
And just in case you are wondering what that little "i" is doing in ISA, it's because it is a truer reflection of what the ISA really is.
Internal Insecurity Act! A more honest name to the Act that incarcerates so many for the reasons they have cited!
shang,
A valuable lesson for the morons in BN to learn. But than you cannot teach morons, can you ?
Ex-BN crony.
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