Jacques Guillaume Thouret

French revolutionary jurist and legislator of the Constituent Assembly, and one of the named reformers behind the abolition of the système de preuve légale. In this vault he is the primary revolutionary voice — quoted by R. G. Bloemberg from the assembly's discussions — articulating what intime conviction was taken to be: an intuitive, unforceable inner certainty, "above precepts and more sure than them," "the surest criterion of Human truth." Matters to this vault as a figure one hop behind the secondary analysis, giving the reformers' own theory of the conviction they were installing in the law rather than a later historian's reconstruction of it.

Note the sourcing hop: the vault holds his words as quoted within Bloemberg's Tier-2 article, not from a direct read of the assembly record. A primary read of the 1791 legislative debates would close that gap (question-verify-preuve-legale-abolition-intime-conviction-primary).

References

• claim-thouret-framed-intime-conviction-as-unforceable-inner-certainty — the claim his quoted words ground
• Related: claim-french-revolution-abolished-preuve-legale-for-intime-conviction; watching: entity-conviction-raisonnee; source hub: entity-r-g-bloemberg