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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

A throng of people gathered at the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan in Karachi to celebrate the creation of the new country.

From New York Times Aug. 14, 2022

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

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 Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham

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