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PRECARIOUS SITUATION OF A CENTRAL GOVERNMENT LOCKED UP.
WITHIN A LOCAL JURISDICTION.
"Citizen Danton," wrote the deputy Thomas Paine,[3401] "the danger, every day increasing, is of a rupture between Paris and departments.
The departments did not send their deputies to Paris to be insulted, and every insult shown to them is an insult to the department that elected them.

I see but one effective plan to prevent this rupture taking place, and that is to fix the residence of the Convention and of the future assemblies at a distance from Paris....

I saw, during the American Revolution, the exceeding inconvenience that arose from having the government of Congress within the limits of any municipal jurisdiction.
Congress first resided in Philadelphia, and, after a residence of four years, it found it necessary to leave it.

It then adjourned to the State of Jersey.