Primary Assemblies Primary Assemblies .-- Proportion of Absentees .-- Unanimity of the voters .-- Their motives for accepting the Constitution.
-- Pressure brought to bear on voters .-- Choice of Delegates.
The ratification will, undoubtedly, be approved.

Everything has been combined beforehand to secure it, also to secure it as wanted, apparently spontaneously, and almost unanimously .-- The primary assemblies, indeed, are by no means fully attended; only one-half, or a quarter, or a third of the electors in the cities deposit their votes, while in the rural districts there is only a quarter, and less.[1110] Repelled by their experience with previous convocations the electors know too well the nature of these assemblies; how the Jacobin faction rules them, how it manages the electoral comedy, with what violence and threats it reduces all dissidents to voting either as figurants or claqueurs.

From four to five million of electors prefer to hold aloof and stay at home as usual.

Nevertheless the organization of most of the assemblies takes place, amounting to some six or seven thousand.

This is accounted for by the fact that each canton contains its small group of Jacobins.