… & Society Places > Clubs & Societies Mots-clés Clubs Crime Debate Democracy French Revolution Gender Law Politics Sovereignty State Violence Political clubs proliferated in France during the French Revolution and became a principal … in the late twentieth. It holds that the clubs’ toxic culture grew out of their ideological commitments to collective sovereignty and political virtue. 1 A more optimistic interpretation, which runs from Alphonse Aulard in the late … polarising society, they also claimed authority that the constitution did not confer to them. The principle of popular sovereignty may have helped justify this seizure of power, but the fact that the state was too weak to carry out the most …