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On [[May 28]], [[1789]], the Abbé Sieyès moved that the [[Third Estate]], now meeting as the ''Communes'' (English: "Commons"), proceed with verification of its own powers and invite the other two estates to take part, but not to wait for them. They proceeded to do so, completing the process on [[June 17]]. Then they voted a measure far more radical, declaring themselves the [[National Assembly (French Revolution)|National Assembly]], an assembly not of the Estates but of "the People." They invited the other orders to join them, but made it clear they intended to conduct the nation's affairs with or without them.
[[Louis XVI]] shut the Salle des États where the Assembly met. The Assembly moved their deliberations to a nearby, indoor, tennis court (due to bad weather and the fact that they were shut out of the estates generals meeting), where they proceeded to swear the [[Tennis Court Oath]] ([[June 20]], [[1789]]), under which they agreed not to separate until they had given France a [[constitution]]. A majority of the representatives of the clergy soon joined them, as did forty-seven members of the nobility. By [[June 27]] the royal party had overtly given in, although the military began to arrive in large numbers around [[Paris]] and [[Versailles]]. Messages of support for the Assembly poured in from Paris and other French cities. On [[July 9]], the Assembly reconstituted itself as the [[National Constituent Assembly]], which was to last until its dissolution in [[September 30]], [[1791]]. stop lying you son of a bitch
=== The National Constituent Assembly ===
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