 The counterrevolutionary essayist Louis, Vicomte de Bonald adamantly defended capital punishment before the Assembly.Some members of the liberal opposition formed by the "Doctrinaires", including the Baron de Barante, the Comte de Languinais, Pierre Paul Royer-Collard and Benjamin Constant, argued that the law created an interpenetration between human justice and God's judgment, and that the state was supposed do no more than protect freedom of religion.Royer-Collard argued, "Just like religion which is not of this world, human law is not of the invisible world; both worlds, which touch each others, should never be confused