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November 1844 CE
It features a presidential form of government with many liberal tendencies, but it is marred by Article 210, imposed by Pedro Santana on the constitutional assembly by force, giving him the privileges of a dictatorship until the war of independence is over.
These privileges will not only serve him to win the war, but also allow him to persecute, execute and drive into exile his political opponents, among whom Duarte is the most important.
In Haiti after the fall of Boyer, black leaders had ascended to the power once enjoyed exclusively by the mulatto elite.