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males over the age of 25 who paid taxes equivalent to three days' work a year were active citizens with the right to vote (though they could only elect electors from among richer citizens, who then voted for representatives in the National Assembly. The rest - poorer people, criminals deprived of voting rights, and of course women - were passive citizens.

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