<P> Most historians divide the National Convention into two main factions: the Girondins and the Montagnards . The Girondins were the more radical democratic faction at the Convention, as opposed to the Montagnards, who were authoritarian populists . They drew their name from the Gironde, a region of France from which many of the deputies of this faction were elected (although many "Girondins" were actually Parisian by origin). They were also known as the Brissotins after their most prominent speaker, Jaques Pierre Brissot . </P> <P> The Montagnards, who drew their support from the less educated segments of the Parisian population, drew their name from the high bleachers that they sat on while the Convention was in session . The Montagnards dominated the Convention through the threat of physical violence . </P> <P> Three questions dominated the first months of the Convention: revolutionary violence; the trial of the king; and Parisian dominance of politics . </P> <P> Antagonism between Paris and the provinces created friction among the people that served as a propaganda tool and combat weapon for the two groups . The departments resisted the idea of centralization . They saw this idea being symbolized by the desire to reduce the capital of the Revolution to its one - eighty - third share of influence . Much of the Gironde wished to remove the Assembly from a city dominated by "agitators and flatterers of the people": it did not at the time encourage an aggressive federalism that would have run counter to its political ambitions . </P>

Which of the following was not accomplished by the national/constituent assembly