1824 Constitution was composed of 7 titles and 171 articles, and was based on the Constitution of Cádiz for American issues, on the United States Constitution for the formula for federal representation and organization, and on the Constitutional Decree for the Liberty of Mexican America of 1824, which abolished the monarchy. It introduced the system of federalism in a popular representative republic with Catholicism as official religion. The 1824 constitution does not expressly state the rights of citizens. The right to equality of citizens was restricted by the continuation of military and ecclesiastical courts. The most relevant articles were: 1. The Mexican nation is sovereign and free from the Spanish government and any other nation. 3. The religion of the nation is the Roman Catholic Church and is protected by law and prohibits any other. 4. The Mexican nation adopts as its form of government a popular federal representative republic. 6. The supreme power of the federation is divided into Legislative power, Executive power and Judiciary power. 7. Legislative power is deposited in a Congress of two chambers—a Chamber of Deputies and a Chamber of Senators. 50. Political freedom of press in the federation and the states (paragraph 1). 74. Executive power is vested in a person called the President of the United Mexican States. 75. It provides the figure of vice president, who in case of physical or moral impossibility of the president, exercise the powers and prerogatives of the latter. 95. The term of the president and vice president shall be four years. 123. Judiciary power lies in a Supreme Court, the Circuit Courts and the District Courts. 124. The Supreme Court consists of eleven members divided into three rooms and a prosecutor. 157. The individual state governments will be formed by the same three powers. Although this was not stipulated in the constitution, slavery was prohibited in the Republic. Miguel Hidalgo promulgated the abolition in Guadalajara on 6 December 1810. President Guadalupe Victoria declared slavery abolished too, but it was President Vicente Guerrero who made the decree of Abolition of Slavery on 15 September 1829. Federation At the time of the promulgation of the Constitution, the nation was composed of 19 free states and 3 territories. That same year, two changes were made in the structure, resulting finally in 19 free states, 5 territories and the federal district. The five Federal Territories were: Alta California, Baja California,