Jacobins
(noun)
The most radical and ruthless of the political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution.
Examples of Jacobins in the following topics:
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Citizen Gênet Affair
- The Affair came to an end when the Jacobins, having taken power in France in January 1794, sent an arrest notice to Washington that demanded that Genêt return to France.
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The Transfer of Power between the Federalists and the Republicans
- "Two political Sects have arisen within the U.S. the one believing that the executive is the branch of our government which the most needs support; the other that like the analogous branch in the English Government, it is already too strong for the republican parts of the Constitution; and therefore in equivocal cases they incline to the legislative powers: the former of these are called federalists, sometimes aristocrats or monocrats, and sometimes Tories, after the corresponding sect in the English Government of exactly the same definition: the latter are still republicans, Whigs, Jacobins, anarchists, disorganizers, etc. these terms are in familiar use with most persons. "