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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

A short distance away, at the bottom of Raisina Hill, in India’s Constituent Assembly, Nehru rose to his feet to make his most famous speech.

From The New Yorker Jun. 22, 2015

Curates and assistants shall be chosen from ecclesiastics pensioned in execution of the laws of the Constituent Assembly.

From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Cunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius)

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