The Law of Two Thirds

The law of two thirds was meant to insure some strong political and politically republican continuity in the national government. Of those who did show up, a little over a million said yes, and just forty nin thousand said no. The conservatives were the most inflame by the law of twothirds. Since termidor, their presses had flourished. Their muscutine youth had been encouraged to wander the streets freely. And the white terror was proceeding out in the departments virtually unchecked for all those closeted monarchists.