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Louise Saint-Just once said, “The Republic consists of the extermination of everything that opposes it
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Louise Saint-Just once said, "The Republic consists of the extermination of everything that opposes it." Being the right-hand man of Robespierre, the leader of the Terror, Saint-Just is obviously referring to the First Republic of France from 1792-1795. What he means by this, is that the essence of the sovereignty of the Republic was that it literally wiped out anyone, or anything that had opposing ideas to it or that posed any threat to it's power. One would have to agree with his statement because the Republic literally did kill everyone that opposed to it. As soon as some people who opposed the policies of Robespierre weren't killed, the Terror was ended and Robespierre himself was killed. This proves that the essence of the Republics power truly was in exterminating the opposition, because as soon as they slipped up a bit, the Republic was overthrown. However they had managed...
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