The Assembly continued the 1789 criminal-trial law for another two years and beyond until replacement legislation. This renewal shows that exceptional courts and policing were not temporary responses that disappeared after a single crisis. The surviving legislative archive records the state’s concern with “public tranquillity”; read against enslaved people’s actions, the measure also documents persistent resistance to bondage.
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Why is the 1791 continuation of the criminal-trial law significant?
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The Assembly extended the coercive law beyond its initial two-year term.