The election of the National Convention was broad, yet where is the limit of democracy visible?

Correct answer: Women were not granted the right to vote

The National Convention represented an important expansion of political participation because it was elected through a much broader male franchise than earlier representative bodies. However, this expansion was still not universal. Women, who had actively participated in demonstrations, political clubs, petitions, and revolutionary campaigns, were not granted voting rights or equal formal political citizenship. Option A is therefore correct because it identifies the gender boundary of the Convention’s democracy. Options B and D describe democratic progress rather than its limitation, while option C describes a political change but not the exclusion involved in the electoral system. The governing concept is partial or restricted democracy: participation widened for men, but women remained outside formal electoral citizenship.