<P> During the French Revolution, a distinction was made for a time between active and passive citizens . In 1791, the Legislative Assembly was chosen by a process of indirect election; the Electors of the Assembly were themselves elected by "active" citizens, male citizens whose annual taxes equalled the local wages paid for three days of labour . This disenfranchised about half of the male citizens of France . Even higher economic requirements for the Electors and the members of the Assembly left only about 50,000 eligible men in a country of some 25 million people . </P> <P> Slavery in France, throughout the Revolution, remained common in the colonies . The abolition of slavery in the colonies would have affected planters who were represented in the assemblies by deputies, particularly the Lameths . The coloured free saw that their rights were being taken from them and finally on this date in 1791 the assembly decided to withdraw their civil rights . However, after the Haitian Revolution and new freedom of blacks in French colonies, in 1794 radical Jacobins reinstated the rights of blacks . Furthermore, slavery was abolished in all French colonies, and free blacks of those colonies were made electable to the French government as colonial representatives . Along with this the rights for free association for workers and the right to strike were also taken away . After a series of strikes on June 14, 1791, in workshops located in Paris, the Loi Le Chapelier was passed . The intention was to establish a free labour market by forbidding associations by workers and also the formation of trade unions . </P> <P> It remained that all had the right to contribute towards the making of the laws, but on December 23, 1789, voting rights only extended to property owners . This reflected a belief that only those who had a stake in decisions made for society as a whole and those who had shown they could manage their own affairs should be eligible for political involvement . Three categories were created to divide the citizens of France: Passive Citizens, Active Citizens, and the Electors . The only members of society that could vote were the members that paid a certain amount of taxes . </P> <P> Passive Citizens were those who had no property rights or voting rights . They were entitled to protection by law with relation to their belongings and their liberty, but had no say in the making of government bodies . This group totalled around three million men within France . The constitution of 1791 reduced the women of France to passive citizens . </P>

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