Constitution of the Year VIII
- Constitution of the Year VIII
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Drafted by Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes, it disguised the true character of the military dictatorship created by
Napoleon, reassuring the partisans of the Revolution by proclaiming the irrevocability of the sale of national property and by upholding the legislation against the
émigré nobility. It created the regime known as the
Consulate, which concentrated all real power in the hands of Napoleon. Submitted to a plebiscite, it won overwhelmingly in 1800.
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