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Revolutionary Leaders The effects of the French Revolution were far reaching in terms of both place and time. The political revolution evolved and changed government like a geological palatial shift changes landscape dramatically and violently. ....

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... the Jacobins, was passionate and he demanded power throughout the Reign of Terror. He defended this by saying a revolutionary government has the right to “summon extraordinary activity”. He felt he literally had the right to make up rules as needed, as there were no established rules during that time. This was to rationalize the atrocities he felt necessary and justified. This was a repressive environment, unbending and too rigid for the French People. Innocent people could be accused of being “outside the sovereign” and executed. Robespierre’s position became precarious, and the people of the National Convention began to feel threatened ...