 Giddy with their success , the radicals now started to overstep their bounds . Their legitimacy was already tenuous , because of the way they had seized power . Now they also lost support in the rump @-@ Assembly because of their partisanship . Not wishing to repeat the mistakes of the French Jacobins they moved against the popular political clubs that formed their political base , thereby alienating their most enthusiastic supporters . On the other hand , at the behest of Delacroix they also moved against " counter @-@ revolutionaries " by having purging commissions removing these people from the electoral rolls , further undermining the legitimacy of the regime , as moderate Patriots were also disenfranchised . The final blow was that the new regime reneged on its promise to elect an entirely new Representative Assembly . 
