Political Groups: Cordeliers Club Flashcards
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Members included?
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Radical thinkers, many bring journalists and lawyers,
Danton, Desmoulins, Marat, Brissot, Hébert.
These men were democratic.
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Who did it suit ?
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A radical club with links to the working class movement.
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Demands included?
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The revision of the Constituent Assembly 1791 for near universal (male) suffrage. They also stated the principles of direct democracy, and the ‘right to insurrection’: the right for working people to attack the government if it does not defend its interests.
