Another evidence that the new doctrine of the sov- radicalism of the Legisla- ereignty of the people was not merely a rosy, yet unsub- tive stantial, figment of the imagination, but was a definite Assembl y principle intended to be applied to daily politics, was the fact that jwhen dissatisfied with the Assembly, the people crowded into its hall Imore frequently, expressing their disapproval, voicing in unambiguous jmanner their desires, and the Assembly, which believed in the doctrine Itoo, did not dare resent its application, did not dare assert its inviola- bility, as the representative of France, of law and order.

The signs of the times, then, were certainly not propitious for those jwho would undo the work of the Revolution, who would restore the jKing and the nobles to the position they had once occu- A vigor- pied and now lost.

The pack would be upon them if they tried.

The struggle would be with a rude and vigorous de- democracy in mocracy in which reverence for the old had die"d, which was existence reckless of traditions, and was ready to suffer and more ready to inflict suffering, if attempts were made to thwart it.

Anything that looked like treachery would mean a popular explosion.