3 sept. 1791 - Constitution of 1791

Description:

- creates the constitutional monarchy
- National Constituent Assembly → Legislative Assembly
- monarch with suspensive veto
- assembly to make laws, declare war and peace
- citizens divided: active (free tax-paying men) and passive (everyone else) categories
- establish administrative departements
- abolished feudal parlements and courts
- abolished branding, torture, public floggings (Beccaria what’s good)
- limitations still present on women

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