Constitution of 1791. Constitution of 1791, French constitution created by the National Assembly during the French Revolution. It retained the monarchy, but sovereignty effectively resided in the Legislative Assembly, which was elected by a system of indirect voting. ... The constitution lasted less than a year.
Features of the Constitution of 1791 framed by the National Assembly : (i) Limit the power of the Monarch. (ii) Powers were separated to different institutions - the Legislature, Executive and the Judiciary.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen de 1789), set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution.
