"To this declaration they added a definite act of sovereignty which trespassed upon and contradicted the legal authority of the Crown. True, the moti… - Hilaire Belloc

"To this declaration they added a definite act of sovereignty which trespassed upon and contradicted the legal authority of the Crown. True, the motion was only moved and passed “provisionally,” but the words used were final, for in this motion the self-styled “National Assembly” declared that “provisionally” taxes and dues might be raised upon the old authority but that only until the National Assembly should disperse; “after which day" — and here we reach the sacramental formula, as it were, of the crisis — "the National Assembly wills and decrees that all taxes and dues of whatever nature which have not been specifically formally and freely granted by the said Assembly shall cease in every province of the kingdom no matter how such that province may be administered."