Editing Jacobins (section)

=== Growth ===
[[File:JacobinClubDoor.jpg|thumb|The Jacobin Club was in the Rue Saint-Honoré, Paris.]]
Once in Paris, the club soon extended its membership to others besides deputies. All citizens were allowed to enter, and even foreigners were welcomed: the English writer [[Arthur Young (writer)|Arthur Young]] joined the club in this manner on 18 January 1790. Jacobin Club meetings soon became a place for radical and rousing oratory that pushed for republicanism, widespread education, [[universal suffrage]], separation of church and state, and other reforms.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldhistory.abc-clio.com |title=World History: The Modern Era |publisher=Worldhistory.abc-clio.com |access-date=2012-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010518223334/http://www.worldhistory.abc-clio.com/ |archive-date=18 May 2001 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On 8 February 1790, the society became formally constituted on this broader basis by the adoption of the rules drawn up by [[Antoine Barnave|Barnave]], which were issued with the signature of the duc d'Aiguillon, the president.<ref name="Phillips 1911, pp. 117–119."/> The club's objectives were defined as such:
# To discuss in advance questions to be decided by the [[National Constituent Assembly (France)|National Assembly]].
# To work for the establishment and strengthening of [[French Constitution of 1791|the constitution]] in accordance with the spirit of the preamble (that is, of respect for legally constituted authority and the [[Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen]]).
# To correspond with other societies of the same kind which should be formed in the realm.<ref name="Phillips 1911, pp. 117–119."/>

At the same time the rules of order of election were settled, and the constitution of the club determined. There was to be a president, elected every month, four secretaries, a treasurer, and committees elected to superintend elections and presentations, the correspondence, and the administration of the club. Any member who by word or action showed that his principles were contrary to the constitution and the rights of man was to be expelled.<ref name="Phillips 1911, pp. 117–119."/>

By the 7th article the club decided to admit as associates similar societies in other parts of France and to maintain with them a regular correspondence. By 10 August 1790 there were already one hundred and fifty-two affiliated clubs; the [[History of France#Curtailment of Church powers (October 1789 – December 1790)|attempts at counter-revolution]] led to a great increase of their number in the spring of 1791, and by the close of the year the Jacobins had a network of branches all over France. At the peak there were at least 7,000 chapters throughout France, with a membership estimated at a half-million or more.  It was this widespread yet highly centralized organization that gave to the Jacobin Club great power.<ref name=Brinton1930/><ref name="Phillips 1911, pp. 117–119."/>