Sentences with 'drafting'
Example sentences and phrases with the word drafting and other words derived from it.
• « French men, including radicals, simply took it for granted that women were incapable of exercising political independence. In fact, however, women exercised political independence at several key moments in the revolution, drafting complaints to be presented to the king at the Estates General, participating in the storming of the Bastille, and forcibly moving the royal family from Versailles to Paris (it was a group of armed women who carried out that particular change of address of the king, queen and heir to the throne). »
• « Two fundamental issues were included in the work plan of the Congress: the declaration of national independence and the drafting of a constitution. »
• « Faced with the financial crisis in France, King Louis XVI was forced to bring together representatives of the nobility, the clergy and the common people. The latter, together with members of the nobility, called for a single assembly, individual suffrage and the drafting of a constitution, in one of the decisive events for the end of the Ancien Régime. »
• « Long's men succeeded in capturing Nacogdoches, drafting a Declaration of Independence and establishing a republican government. Spanish troops drove them out a month later. »