Constitution of 1801- Haiti
Art. 3. - There cannot exist slaves on this territory, servitude is therein forever abolished. All men are born, live and die free and French.
Art. 4. – All men, regardless of color, are eligible to all employment.
Art. 5. – There shall exist no distinction other than those based on virtue and talent, and other superiority afforded by law in the exercise of a public function. The law is the same for all whether in punishment or in protection.
Art. 6. - The Catholic, Apostolic, Roman faith shall be the only publicly professed faith.
Art. 9. – Marriage, by its civic and religious institution, tend to the purity of mores; spouses who will practice the virtues required by their condition shall always be distinguished and especially protected by the government.
Art. 10. – Divorce shall not take place in the colony.
Art. 12. – The Constitution guarantees freedom and individual security. No one shall be arrested unless a formally expressed mandate, issued from a functionary to whom the law grants the right to order arrest and detention in a publicly designated location.
Art. 13. – Property is sacred and inviolable. All people, either by himself, or by his representatives, has the free right to dispose and to administer property that is recognized as belonging to him. Anyone who attempts to deny this right shall become guilty of crime towards society and responsible towards the person troubled in his property.
Art. 42. – Citizens shall have an inalienable right to be judged by arbiters at their choice.
Art. 22. – The Central Assembly of Saint-Domingue shall be composed of two representatives from each region, whom, to be eligible, shall be at least 30 years of age and have resided for 5 years in the colony.
Art. 24. – The Assembly shall vote on the adoption or the rejection of laws that are proposed to it by the Governor.
Art. 26. – On the state of revenues and spending that are proposed to the Assembly by the Governor, the Assembly shall determine, when appropriate, establishment of rates, quotas, the duration and mode of tax collection, its increase or decrease; these conditions shall be summarily printed.
Art. 27. – The administrative direction of the government shall be entrusted to a Governor who corresponds directly with the government of the metropole, on all matters relative to the interests of the colony.
Art. 28. – The Constitution nominates the citizen Toussaint-Louverture, Chief General of the army of Saint-Domingue, and, in consideration for important services rendered to the colony, in the most critical circumstances of the revolution, and upon the wishes of the grateful inhabitants, he is entrusted the direction thereof for the remainder of his glorious life.
Art. 29. – In the future, each governor shall be nominated for five years, and shall continue every five years for reasons of his good administration.
Art. 66. – Any person shall have the right to address individual petitions to all constitutional authority and especially to the Governor.