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Indirect legislative elections designed Council of Ancients

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Indirect legislative elections designed Council of Ancients

Daunou, Pierre Claude Francois · Paris · Legislator

The Directory's constitution relied upon primary and electoral assemblies rather than direct mass elections to the councils. The system narrowed democratic participation compared with the Jacobin constitution that had never been implemented.

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