The Constituent Assembly (Dutch: Constituerende Vergadering) was the legislature of the Batavian Republic after the January 1798 coup d'etat. The members came from the Second National Assembly, which was elected during the 1797 Batavian Republic general election. However, some had been expelled during the coup, while others had resigned voluntarily. Its main objective was to write a new constitution, which became the Staatsregeling 1798 which was approved in the 1798 referendum. On 4 May, the Constituent Assembly transitioned into the Representative Body.
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Further reading
- Joris Oddens (19 October 2012), Pioniers in schaduwbeeld: Het eerste parlement van Nederland 1796-1798 (in Dutch), hdl:11245/1.375694, Wikidata Q131919155
