Others wished to be more accommodating to the royal will. Most of the time of the Assembly, however, was spent on spiritual and doctrinal matters, arising out of the Jansenist controversy and the papal Bull Unigenitus.
While some preferred a more deferential approach to royal authority, the majority of the Assembly's time was consumed by matters related to spirituality and doctrine, which were influenced by the Jansenist controversy and the papal document Unigenitus.