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02 Jan 07
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The following document gives the response of the National Assembly to the popular uprising of August 10, and formally deposes Louis XVI.
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Every public functionary, every soldier, every officer, of whatever rank he may be, and general of an army, who shall abandon his post in these days of alarm is declared infamous and traitorous to the fatherland.
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The king and his family shall reside within the precincts of the legislative body until calm may be reestablished in Paris.
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they shall be put under the custody of the citizens and the law.
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to form a national convention; tomorrow, the extraordinary commission shall present a proposal to indicate the method and the time of this convention
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The head of the executive power is provisionally suspended from his functions
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present a method for organizing a new ministry within a day
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proposal for a decree upon the selection of a governor for the royal prince.
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Payment of the king’s salary will remain suspended
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it cannot reconcile what it owes to its unshaken fidelity to the Constitution with its firm resolve to be buried under the ruins of the temple of liberty rather than to let it perish, except by taking recourse to the sovereignty of the people and by taking at the same time indispensable precautions so that this recourse may not be rendered illusory by treason
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