The work of the Constituent Assembly was the regeneration of ideas and government, the displacing of power, the restoration of right, the abolition of all subjugation even of the mind, the freedom of consciences, the formation of an administration; and this work lasts, and will endure as long as the name of France.

The vice of the institution of 1791 was not in any one particular point.

It has not perished because the _veto_ of the king was suspensive instead of absolute; it has not perished, because the right of peace or war was taken from the king, and reserved to the nation; it has not perished, because it did not place the legislative power in one chamber only instead of in two: these asserted vices are to be found in many other constitutions, which still endure.

The diminution of the royal power was not the main danger to royalty in '91; it was rather its salvation, if it could have been saved.
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The more power was given to the king, and action to the monarchical principle, the quicker the king and the principle would have fallen; for the greater would have been the distrust and hatred against him.

Two chambers, instead of one, would not have preserved any thing.