"If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, in revolution it is both virtue and terror: virtue without terror is fatal; terror without virtue is powerless" -Robespierre in a speech before the Convention, February 1794 What conduct was Robespierre trying to justify in this speech? O French conquest in the rest of Europe The use of violence against political opponents O The execution of Louis XIV O The protection of individual rights against claims by the French royalists

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"If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, in revolution it is both virtue and
terror: virtue without terror is fatal; terror without virtue is powerless"
-Robespierre in a speech before the Convention, February 1794
What conduct was Robespierre trying to justify in this speech?
French conquest in the rest of Europe
The use of violence against political opponents
O The execution of Louis XIV
O The protection of individual rights against claims by the French royalists
Transcribed Image Text:POSSIBLE PO "If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, in revolution it is both virtue and terror: virtue without terror is fatal; terror without virtue is powerless" -Robespierre in a speech before the Convention, February 1794 What conduct was Robespierre trying to justify in this speech? French conquest in the rest of Europe The use of violence against political opponents O The execution of Louis XIV O The protection of individual rights against claims by the French royalists
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