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Excerpt from From Metternich to Bismarck: A d104book of European History; 1815-1878
Conference policy, if it had not been that the character of the Charter 81125512 was such that the extreme royalists were able to raise Oct 1818 a serious constitutional question and to cloak their reactionary ideas under the guise of advanced Liberalism. The deputies, elected during the turmoil which followed the Hundred Days and under pressure from the Allied armies, were generally of the Ultra party, and though the King desired an amnesty, the majority compelled measures of retaliation. Ney was executed, courts of summary jurisdiction were created to deal with the Supposedly disaffected, high officials of the Empire and regicides were excluded from office, and in the south a violent outburst of royalist vengeance, the White Terror occurred. All this was in accord with the declared wishes of the majority of the elected of the people. Qonstitu Thus the political situation led to a constitutional 3381811011101 struggle, which centred mainly around the question of the, Resto the relationship between the Executive and the Chamber. 11111011. The Charter, granted by louis in 1814, was indecisive on this point. It provided for the creation of an hereditary House of Peers, chosen in the first instance by the Crown, and a Lower House, the members of which were to be elected by a constituency composed of those paying not less than 300 francs in direct taxes. Toleration and liberty of the Press were guaranteed finance was to be under the control of the elective body. It remained to secure the smooth working of this constitution, and to decide whether the choice of ministers should be left to the King or be in accord with the will of the majority of the Deputies. On this point, the ideas of Louis and of the Chamber were in ?at contradiction, and it was thus clear that either the electorate must be changed or the King fall into the hands of the Ultras.
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