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|536| main issue, this was declared to him to be quite false, for the assembly had in one sitting passed the resolution that every member be called upon to prepare himself for a draft of the constitutional charter! – As if every deputy should not already have brought his whole preparation with him, and as if such a resolution of the assembly, that every member should prepare himself, had been a work, and an answer when one asks after the three months’ work of an assembly. – In any case, however, one saw before that on the following 26 October it occurred to the assembly that the statement of the fundamental laws of its constitution was impossible for it because it had not yet been able to use the archive of the estates.
Inactive, to be sure, the estates of the realm have not therefore been; on their diplomatic path they have transacted formal business enough. But since this is wholly confined within the conditioned limits of a merely positive standpoint, which even as positive no longer has any actuality, so, the more lively the interest becomes in the maintenance of formal right, the less does an independent rational content present itself, and in this exposition, which has already touched upon the most important points of view, the historical course, moreover known to the public, can be further cited only according to its chief moments.
To the first submission of the estates mentioned above, in which they had declared the rejection of the royal constitution in a delicate way, but actually in a way not open and frank but meant to be hidden and contorted, they were already two days afterwards simply referred by the King to the rights due to them by virtue of this constitution and reminded that the way was open to them therein, if they had individual wishes to put forward in this regard; the assurance was added that such wishes and petitions should find a favourable hearing
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