e great Architect alters much, admits much. Distinction of
Active and Passive Citizen, that is, Money-qualification for Electors:
nay Two Chambers, 'Council of Ancients,' as well as 'Council of Five
Hundred;' to that conclusion have we come! In a like spirit, eschewing
that fatal self-denying ordinance of your Old Constituents, we enact not
only that actual Convention Members are re-eligible, but that Two-thirds
of them must be re-elected. The Active Citizen Electors shall for this
time have free choice of only One-third of their National Assembly.
Such enactment, of Two-thirds to be re-elected, we append to our
Constitution; we submit our Constitution to the Townships of France, and
say, Accept both, or reject both. Unsavoury as this appendix may be, the
Townships, by overwhelming majority, accept and ratify. With Directory
of Five; with Two good Chambers, double-majority of them nominated by
ourselves, one hopes this Constitution may prove final. March it will;
for the legs of it, the re-elected Two-thirds, are already there, able
to march. Sieyes looks at his Paper Fabric with just pride.

But now see how the contumacious Sections, Lepelletier foremost, kick
against the pricks! Is it not manifest infraction of one's Elective
Franchise, Rights of Man, and Sovereignty of the People, this appendix
of re-electing your Two-thirds? Greedy tyrants who would perpetuate
yourselves!--For the truth is, victory over Saint-Antoine, and long
right of Insurrection, has spoiled these men. Nay spoiled all men.
Consider too how each man was free to hope what he liked; and now there
is to be no hope, there is to be fruition, fruition of this.

In men spoiled by long right of Insurrection, what confused ferments
will rise, tongues once begun wagging! Journalists declaim, your
Lacretelles, Laharpes; Orators spout. There is Royalism traceable in it,
and Jacobinism. On the West Frontier, in deep secrecy, Pichegru, durst
he trust his Army, is treating with Conde: in these Sections, there
spout wolves in sheep's clothing, masked Emigrants and Royalists!
(Napoleon, Las Cases, Choix des Rapports, xvii. 398-411.) All men, as
we say, had hoped, each that the Election would do something for his own
side: and now there is no Election, or only the third of one. Black is
united with white against this clause of the Two-thirds; all the Unruly
of France, who see their trade thereby near ending.

Section Lepelletier, after Addresses enough, finds that