Original sentence: Payne noted that by the time of the outbreak of war Republicans had abandoned constitutional republicanism for leftist revolution:.Scholar Stanley G.The leftist zone has been variously designated 'Republican,' 'loyalist,' and 'Popular Front
Edited sentence: <ref>The leftist zone has been variously designated 'Republican,' 'loyalist,' and 'Popular Front.According to scholar Stanley G.Among the non-constitutional actions of the Republicans prior to the revolt, he mentions, for example, the declaration of an amnesty for leftist political prisoners "without bothering to observe full constitutional requirements"; the local implementations of the promised agrarian reform in Badajoz province, which were only legalized by the government ex post facto; and a "wave of terrorism and street violence" by leftist militias, primarily against members of the small Spanish fascist movement.Payne, by the time of the outbreak of war Republicans had abandoned constitutional republicanism for leftist revolution and if that hadn't been the case, "there would have been no revolt and civil war in the first place"