The Hayti Knowledge Vault
The Constitutional Corpus
Twenty Haitian constitutional texts, from Toussaint’s charter of 1801 to the transition’s draft of 2025, in full French — assembled so that anyone arguing about Haiti’s constitutions can read them instead.
20 texts · 1801–2025
Each file opens with a header naming its source, the date it was retrieved, and the formatting applied. Article headings were counted and checked against each text’s own numbering; where a source transcription was defective, the header says what was corrected and what was deliberately left alone. Nothing in the texts themselves has been altered.
Every text here is in French. Articles 5 and 40 of the 1987 Constitution make Kreyòl an official language and require the laws to be published in both — and no Haitian constitution has ever been authoritative in Kreyòl. That gap is the subject of work in progress, not an oversight of this page.
Two files show superseded wording alongside the wording that replaced it, and are the easiest in the corpus to misquote. The 1859–60 file marks its revisions with a trailing label, so the paragraph immediately above a label is the law in force. The 1987-amended-2012 file marks nothing at all: it prints the 1987 and 2011 wordings as consecutive paragraphs, which is why it still carries the absolute ban on dual nationality a few lines after the clause that presupposes it — a ban the 2011 law in fact repealed. The marked text listed directly beneath it is the remedy: it shows what was struck and what was added, and it is the file to read first.