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have been conferred upon them.
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ARTICLE III.--Officials and agents of the public force are charged
under penalty of treason to put this present decree into execution.
"Given in Permanent Session, 3d December, 1851."
Madier de Montjau and De Flotte entered. They came from outside. They
had been in all the districts where the conflict was proceeding, they
had seen with their own eyes the hesitation of a part of the population
in the presence of these words, "The Law of the 31st May is abolished,
Universal Suffrage is re-established." The placards of Louis Bonaparte
were manifestly working mischief. It was necessary to oppose effort to
effort, and to neglect nothing which could open the eyes of the people.
I dictated the following Proclamation:-
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PROCLAMATION.
People! you are being deceived.
Louis Bonaparte says that he has re-established you in your rights,
and that he restores to you Universal Suffrage.
"
Louis Bonaparte has lied.
"Read his placards. He grants you--what infamous mockery!--the right
of conferring on him, on him alone, the Constituent power; that is
to say, the Supreme power, which belongs to you. He grants you the
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