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The statement said that the Bolshevik members withdrew "in order to permit
the Soviet power to determine what relations it would hold with the
counter-revolutionary section of the Constituent Assembly"--a threat which
needed no interpretation.
After the withdrawal of the Bolshevik members, the majority very quickly
adopted a declaration which had been carefully prepared by the
Socialist-Revolutionists during the weeks which had elapsed since the
elections in the preliminary conferences which had been held for that
purpose. The declaration read as follows:
RUSSIA'S FORM OF GOVERNMENT
In the name of the peoples who compose the Russian state, the
All-Russian Constituent Assembly proclaims the Russian State to be
the Russian Democratic Federated Republic, uniting indissolubly
into one whole the peoples and territories which are sovereign
within the limits prescribed by the Federal Constitution.
LAWS REGARDING LAND OWNERSHIP
1. _The right to privately own land within the boundaries of the
Russian Republic is hereby abolished forever._
2. All land within the boundaries of the Russian Republic, with
all mines, forests, and waters, is hereby declared the property of
the nation.
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