Reforms to Church and State 1789-91
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- Created on: 04-01-21 16:14
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- Reforms to Church and State 1789-91
- Political
- Divided into 83 departments for elections and local govt
- divided into districts (547), cantons (4872) and communes (44,000)
- more power given to local areas to protect against royal power
- Right to vote given to 'active citizens' = all men over 25 who paid min 4mill tax
- those ineligible = passive citizens
- Judicial: all courts replaced by a uniform system
- Justice of the Peace in each canton, trial was by Jury
- torture and mutilation abolished, justice free for all
- Divided into 83 departments for elections and local govt
- Religious
- Civil Constitution of the Clergy 12th July 1790
- Bishops and dioceses reorganised with 83 new departments, all other clerical posts removed
- appointment to any clerical post by election!
- many clergy opposed constitution - call for synod denied so they waited pope's judgement
- All church property became property of state
- Abuses like pluralism abolished
- Clergy to be paid by state instead of tithe
- non educational or charitable monastic orders were supressed
- Protestants given full civil rights
- Clerical Oath 27th Nov 1790
- Deputies forced all clergy to take oath to constitution
- Pope came out against these Reforms
- now a significant amount of anti revolutionists
- The 50%+ who refused to take oath were the REFACTORY CLERGY and removed
- Civil Constitution of the Clergy 12th July 1790
- Economic/social
- Deputies believed in LAISSEZ FAIRE
- all internal customs barriers abolished
- Loi Le Chapelier 1791 - guilds, trade unions and strikes banned
- benefitted employers, not the poor
- Deputies saw poor relief as duty of state.. but little was done
- almost 2mill people begging, lacked finances
- Assignats introduced to finance state - backed by sale of church land
- Sale provided income, created interest in revolution, and made clergy state dependent so supprotive
- June 1790 a law ended hereditary nobility, and parlements abolished Sept 1790
- Everyone paid tax. ALL = land and commercial ACTIVE = moveable
- Political
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