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  • Voting franchise for all tax paying free men.

  • A unicameral legislature with members elected to one-year terms.

  • A twelve-member Supreme Executive Council to administer the government.

  • A President elected by the Assembly and Council together

  • A Council of Censors (elected every seven years) to conduct a one year long evaluation of the activities. They could "censure" actions by the government deemed to have violated the constitution.


By 1790, however, it would be replaced by a new constitution.


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