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Constituent Assembly

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noun

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


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Time magazine reported that Indian leaders had gathered in the Constituent Assembly Hall an hour before midnight.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2025

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 2014, Tunisia’s democratically elected Constituent Assembly passed an inclusively drafted constitution, painstakingly debated over two years, that enshrined safeguards for human rights, checks and balances, and other fundamental pillars of representative governance.

From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2022

This history helped it to win decisive influence in the Constituent Assembly, which also served as Tunisia’s interim legislature.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 1, 2014

"But why," asks Kautsky, "did you not summon a new Constituent Assembly?"

From Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) by Trotzky, Leon Davidovich