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pleaded  their  respective  projtcts.  Its  sentence  was  law.  It
would  seem  that  the  object  of  Sieves  was  to  put  a  stop  to  the
violent  usurpations  of  party,  and  while  placing  the  sove-
reignty in  the  people,  to  give  it  limits  in  itself:    this  de-

i  Bign  appears  from  the  complicated  works  of  his  political
machine.  The  primary  assemblies,  composed  of  the  tenth  of
the  general  population,  nominated  the  local  list  of  communal
candidates;  electoral  colleges,  also  nominated  by  them,  selected
from  the  communal  list  the  superior  list  of  provincial  candi-
dates, and  from  the  provincial  list,  the  list  of  national  candi-
dates. In  all  which  concerned  the  government,  there  was  a
reciprocal  control.  The  proclaimer-general  selected  his  func-
tionaries from  among  the  candidates  nominated  by  the  people:
'and  the  people  could  dismiss  functionaries,  by  not  keeping
them  on  the  lists  of  candidates,  which  were  renewed,  the  first
every  two  years,  the  second  every  five  years,  the  third  every
ten  years.     But  the  proclaimer-general  did  not  interfere  in

5.  the  nomination  of  tribunes  and  legislators,  whose  attributes

i  were  purely  popular.
