The Constitution of 1795 takes effect upon…
November 1795 CE
The Constitution of 1795 takes effect upon its approval by plebiscite.
The Directory, drawn from two-thirds of the Convention deputies and established, along with two assemblies and a property owners’ franchise, by the Constitution of 1795, is established on November 3, 1795.
Under this system, France is led by a bicameral Parliament, consisting of an upper chamber called the Council of Elders (with two hundred and fifty members) and a lower chamber called the Council of Five-Hundreds (with, accordingly, five hundred members) and a collective Executive government of five members called the Directory (from which this historical period gets its name).
The Directory is meant to guard the new French republic from reversion to either unbridled democracy or monarchy.
A royalist majority dominates the newly formed Council of Five-Hundreds.