A resolution of the National Constituent Assembly, passed by Robespierre in September 1791, which ruled that no current member of the assembly could sit in its replacement body, the Legislative Assembly.
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The Self-denying Ordinance was passed by the Long Parliament of England on 3 April 1645.{efn|All parliamentary bills which passed into law from the start of the English Civil War up until the execution of Charles I were styled `Ordinance` because parliamentary bills need royal assent to become acts, and Charles I would not give his assent to bil.....
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[French Revolution] During the French Revolution the Constituent Assembly, elected in 1789, passed a self-denying ordinance barring any member from sitting in its successor, the Legislative Assembly convened in 1791. ==History== The National Constituent Assembly dissolved itself on 30 September 1791. Upon Maximilien de Robespierre`s motion ...
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In the English Civil War, proposal 3 April 1645 that all New Model Army officers who were peers or members of parliament should be obliged to resign. The measure was introduced after the...
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The self-denying ordinance was a measure passed in the English Parliament of 1645, largely due to Oliver Cromwell and the Independents, whereby all officers holding commissions in the army were called upon to resign. In this way those generals who held either Episcopalian or Presbyterian views - such as Essex, Manchester and Waller - were removed f...
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