Political Changes

•The National Assembly advocated for many changes including a limited monarchy. An elected assembly acted as legislature while the king still acted as executive.
•Radicals gained control calling for even more dramatic changes. In the national convention, they abolished the monarchy and executed many resistors including the king and his family.
• The terror of being beheaded grew, turning the national convention against the radicals and their committee of public safety.
• Moderates took control and drafted a new constitution calling for a two-house legislature and an executive body of five men (the directory).
•The directors lost favor and Napoleon Bonaparte seized political control through force becoming one of the three consul members and later elected by a plebiscite to the same position for life. Later he was elected as emperor in another plebiscite.
• Napoleon created the Napoleonic Code, which was a set of laws that applied to all citizens granted them all equal rights before the law.