 A plurality of the elected candidates were independents, but almost all were affiliated with the three political factions emerging in the new legislative assembly; the "Marais", the Feuillants and the Jacobins (Montagnards, since they occupied the most elevated in the assembly).The factions were only vaguely affiliated to an organized program.The Feuillants did, however, support a constitutional monarchy, the Girondists a moderate republican policy and the Cordeliers a radical democratic constitution, supported by the lower classes.