The Directory was a political system that
a. used a five-member executive committee to choose a new ruler for France.
b. oversaw the National Assembly while they reformed the constitution after the Thermidorian reaction.
c. implemented two houses of government and five overseers.
d. combined the political leanings of the Girondins, the pro-monarchists, the nonjurors, and the sans-culottes.
e. utilized the departments established during the Reign of Terror as a centralist bureaucracy.
c
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