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  • Essay / What was the main goal of the Terror? - 1214

    The Committee of Public Safety and a large part of the population may have believed that its main objective was to fight for Liberty and the writings of Philosophers and for the Declaration of the Rights of Man; as after the Revolution, the remains of the Philosophers, Rousseau and Voltaire were both returned in a ceremonial transfer to the Pantheon. However, it is likely that the Philosophers did not intend for this to happen, as they believed in equality for all and that there should be no oppression. However, the Terror did not end up fighting oppression, because it actually created oppression and no one was treated as such. equal. Additionally, the Declaration of the Rights of Man was suspended by the Committee of Public Safety, so it is difficult to understand why they would suspend it if that was the goal they were fighting for. Since the Committee of Public Safety was set up as part of a war cabinet to mobilize French human resources, set wages and prices, call up the army, supply the army and eliminate internal opposition, one could claim that the Terror was used to impose "ceilings" on wages and prices so that provisions were affordable for everyone - to create an egalitarian society and to ensure that arrangements were made for the army to fight for France against the enemies of the revolution. The Terror would also have been intended to ensure the "virtue" of all citizens, allowing the Public Security Committee to suppress any opposition using its own decrees. The convention was given the difficult task of governing a country that was in the midst of a difficult revolutionary transformation; so they had to think of a way to manage the country during this difficult time. Power was delegated to a twelve-member Committee of Public Safety in 1793 and a "M...... middle of paper...... was charged with changing the political and social structure of France because after the collapse of the Ancien RĂ©gime no one could envisage returning to the feudal regime, and those who did so, the royalists, the clergy and nobility who had lost their inherited privileges and the counter-revolutionaries, had to be repressed so that no one can bring France back to an unjust regime. were to liberate France from oppression as the Convention established freedom of religion, demolished the royal statute and emblems, closed the churches and stripped the corpses from the king's tombs in the abbey of Saint-Denis. The main objective of the Terror was perhaps to get rid of the church, the Civil Constitution of the Clergy emphasized non-sworn priests who were counter-revolutionaries and the Terror was in place to eradicate the clergy so eager to return to the old regime where he would be rich.