Haiti. Title II of the draft bases of the Constitution defines who is Haitian and bars white men from owning real property.

No white man could acquire the status of Haitian, nor the right to own any real property in Haiti. Under the same Title II, section II comprised civil and political rights. Section III set out sovereignty and the exercise of the rights deriving from it. National sovereignty resided in the sovereignty of the citizens. It was delegated to three elective and temporary powers: the legislative power, the executive power and the judicial power. The government of the Republic was essentially civil and representative. These three powers were exercised, the first by two representative Chambers, a Chamber of Communes and a Senate; the second by a citizen who took the title of President of the Haitian Republic and could receive no other designation; the third by a court of cassation, courts of appeal, courts of first instance and courts of the peace.