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Opinion de P.C.L. Baudin (des Ardennes), sur la résolution du 8 floréal, relative aux théâtres. : séance du 18 prairial an 6

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Title Opinion de P.C.L. Baudin (des Ardennes), sur la résolution du 8 floréal, relative aux théâtres. : séance du 18 prairial an 6

Creator Baudin, 1748-1799

Publisher De l'Imprimerie nationale

Date 1798

Place France

Language French

Subjects Theater

Summary Urging the Conseil des anciens not to adopt the resolution of the Conseil des cinq-cents restricting the theaters.

Extent 15 p. ; 22 cm

Format Early works, Sources, Pamphlets

User-Contributed Translation no one believes it more than I, so long as we never risk enslaving under the pretext of reorganizing.
What is being proposed to us concerning the theater? I cannot separate the resolution that is being proposed to us from the preceding discussion at the Council of Five Hundred, because the speeches of the orators reveal their intentions and goals. I observe here again the merit of public debates: all is recorded, grasped and compared, and the letter of the law offers itself surrounded by undeniable monuments that fix the meaning of its measures by revealing the motives of the legislator.
Hence, it is well-known from the discussion at the Council of Five Hundred that after having debated diverse issues relating to the theater and having proposed several projects, all was reduced to the current resolution so as to avoid, they said, details that were deemed too meticulous and unworthy of legislation; they thought it would be better to rely on the Directory. Indeed, the first article of the resolution, which states that theaters are under the surveillance of the Directory, together with all that was said, implicitly gives authority to the executive Power; otherwise it would, properly speaking, lack any object.
Indeed, in considering nothing but its wording, one is first struck to find in it the style of the constitution, rather than that of ordinary laws. The former normally uses the present tense, because it appears to announce rather than establish an order of things held to be immutable, whereas the law almost always speaks in the future tense, as instituting that which never existed before it and would not have been able to exist otherwise.
Thus, when they tell us: theaters are under the surveillance of the Directory, the proposal is pointless if it contains only a declaration of fact, without any new institution. The Directory ranks highest above all other

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Call Number Case FRC 14219

BibID 998296848805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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