What Were The Consequences Of Robespierre

against citizens and made it so virtually any criticism of the government became criminal. It placed an active obligation on all citizens to denounce and bring to justice those suspected of being against the Revolution, limited trials in the Revolutionary Tribunal to three days, and required the Tribunal to come to one of only two possible verdicts - acquittal or death. The enactment of the law had an almost immediate impact on the rate of executions occurring during the Terror. The law itself cancelled any and all previous legislation on the subject and made the members of the Convention susceptible to the same treatment as everyone else. Where they had once been immune to being convicted of a crime, they now could be. The enactment of this law had important consequences politically. It made Robespierre and the Committee rulers. As the death rate in the Terror accelerated, and members of the Convention began to feel more and more threatened, a plan was devised to overthrow Robespierre.
There were people who wanted the power that was implicated in being a part of the Committee of Public Safety and others who wanted the Terror to end and were completely against the Revolutionary government as a whole vying for the removal of Robespierre. Others thought it would be best for him to be removed in order to keep themselves alive. In order for this to happen, they began to collect charges against him, one them being the Law of 22 Prairial. Robespierre was arrested and refused a hearing before his peers. He was executed on July 8, 1794. With his execution, the Terror had come to an