114 people from 24 prefectures participated, including representatives from political associations unaffiliated with the Aikokusha, and about 87,000 signatures were collected together petitioning for the establishment of a national assembly.
At the conference Hironaka Kono was selected as chair, and then a "Victim Relief Act" was enacted providing for support to individuals and their families who had been subject to oppression due to their involvement in the campaign.
Though it wasn't voted on at the conference, a proposal was also put forward by Hironaka Kono, Masahisa Matsuda, and Emori Ueki to form a political party in order to lead the campaign.
In order to deflect mounting criticism, the government promulgated on 12 October 1881 the Imperial Edict on the Establishment of a National Assembly to take effect in the year 1890.
The activists of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement, judging that they had succeeded in their objective, shelved their discussion of the draft constitutions and the majority agreed that they ought to create a political party.
Because differences of opinion would emerge between the group's urban and rural elements, Morikazu Numa seceded from the formation of the new party and would later join Shigenobu Okuma's Rikken Kaishinto.