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Constituent Assembly

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noun

French History.
  1. the legislature of France 1789–91.


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His mother, Ariadna Chernova, was the daughter of Viktor Chernov, a socialist revolutionary who fleetingly served as president of Russia's Constituent Assembly in 1918, before it was dispersed by the Bolsheviks.

From Reuters Jul. 26, 2023

In her campaign program, Ms. Castro called for creation of a Constituent Assembly that would rewrite Honduras’s Constitution.

From New York Times Nov. 29, 2021

First elected to a public office in 2000, she came to national prominence in 2014 as the vice-chairperson of the Constituent Assembly, created to draft a new constitution.

From BBC Mar. 18, 2021

The assembly was scheduled to meet Tuesday, which would have coincided with a session of the National Constituent Assembly.

From Washington Post Jan. 15, 2020

On the 18th of April, 1849, the Constituent Assembly voted that a manifesto should be addressed to the Governments and Parliaments of England and France.

From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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