The Declaration of Rights and Duties of Mankind at the beginning of the constitution included an explicit ban on slavery.

[3] On 4 Floréal Year III (23 April 1795), the Convention delegates the task of drafting a new Constitution to a commission composed of 11 of its members, including Boissy d'Anglas, future Second Consul Cambacérès, Daunou, Merlin de Douai, and the Abbé Sieyès.

Following this decree, Cambacérès, Merlin, and Sieyès opted to remain members of the Committee, and were replaced by Baudin, Durand-Maillane, and Lanjuinais.

[5] Despite defending this idea in June 1795, it was not implemented, but would later become the basis of the Conservative Senate (Sénat conservateur) of the Consulate.

[7] To justify this "decree of two-thirds" (French: Décret des deux-tiers), he explained that "the fall of the Constituent Assembly taught you well enough that (electing) an entirely new legislature to set in motion a constitution that has not yet been tried is an infallible means of having it overthrown".

Their departmentalisation is achieved by the creation of 11 to 13 departments:[12] The status of citizen (French: citoyen) is reserved for men aged 21 years and above.