However, the Assembly was dissolved on the same day by the Bolshevik-controlled All-Russian Central Executive Committee, meaning the declaration was not carried out as it was considered to be without legal force.

The fundamental basis of the state was representative democracy and federation of both[2] national and territorial autonomous oblasts.

For the first time, the unitary structure of Russia would have been officially abolished and the country declared a federation, marking the start of the federalist period in Russian history.

The head of state would have been the President of the Russian Democratic Federative Republic, elected for a one-year term[6] by a majority vote in parliament involving the deputies of both chambers.

According to the final draft of the Constitution, adopted in Paris on 20 January 1920, legislative power was to be held by a bicameral parliament.