It was necessary to postpone the opening of the Constituent
Assembly.
Our fraction utilized this forced delay by an intensive
preparatory work. We elaborated, in several commissions, projects
of law concerning all the fundamental questions that the
Constituante would have to solve. We adopted the project of our
fundamental law on the question of the land; we elaborated the
measures which the Constituante would have to take from the very
first day in order to arrive at a truly democratic peace, so
necessary to our country; we discussed the principles which should
direct the friendly dwelling together of all the nationalities
which people Russia and assure each people a national point of
view, the free disposition of itself, thus putting an end to the
fratricidal war.
Our fraction would have been all ready for the day of the opening
of the Constituante, in order to commence, from the first, a
creative work and give to the impoverished country peace, bread,
land, and liberty.
At the same time, we did our utmost to accelerate the arrival of
the deputies and the opening of the Assembly.
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