What do they want who boast of the name of republicans?
They fear, they abhor equally, the turbulent assemblies of Rome and Athens, and equally dread a federated republic.

They desire a representative constitution--nothing more, nothing less--and thus, we all concur.

The head of the executive power has betrayed his oath,--must we bring him to judgment?
This is the only point on which we differ.

Inviolability will else be impunity to all crimes, an encouragement for all treason--common sense demands that the punishment should follow the offence.

I do not see an inviolable man governing the people, but a _God_ and 25,000,000 of _brutes!_ If the king had on his return entered France at the head of foreign forces, if he had ravaged our fairest provinces, and if, checked in his career, you had made him prisoner, what would you then have done with him?
Would you have allowed his inviolability to have saved him?
Foreign powers are held up before you as a threat; do not fear them: Europe in arms is impotent against a people who will be free." In the National Assembly Muguer, in the name of the joint committees, brought up the report on the king's flight; he maintained the inviolability of Louis XVI.