Editing October Manifesto (section)

==Provisions==
The October Manifesto addressed the unrest application throughout the [[Russian Empire]] and pledged to grant certain [[civil liberties]], including 
*To grant to the population the essential foundations of civil freedoms based on the principles of genuine inviolability of the person, freedom of conscience, speech, assembly and association.
* Without postponing the scheduled elections to the State Duma, to admit to participation in the Duma (insofar as possible in the short time that remains before it is scheduled to convene) of all those classes of the population that now are completely deprived of voting rights; and to leave the further development of a general statute on elections to the future legislative order.
*To establish as an unbreakable rule that no law shall take effect without confirmation by the State Duma and that the elected representatives of the people shall be guaranteed the opportunity to participate in the supervision of the legality of the actions of our appointed officials.
*The Manifesto also introduced universal manhood suffrage in Russia which was common in some Western countries, such as France, Germany and the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://academic.shu.edu/russianhistory/index.php/Manifesto_of_October_17th,_1905 |publisher=[[Seton Hall University]] |title=Documents in Russian History-Manifesto of October 17th, 1905 |date=February 22, 2009 |access-date=November 19, 2013 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

This document, although granting certain rights to the Russian people, did not guarantee that the Russian government would function in a democratic way. Instead, the Manifesto  just stated that the people now had certain rights and a voice in legislation.<ref name="Kropotkin">{{cite journal|last=Kropotkin|first=G. M.|title=The Ruling Bureaucracy and the 'New Order' of Russian Statehood After the Manifesto of 17 October 1905|journal=Russian Studies in History|year=2008|volume=46|issue=4|pages=6–7|doi=10.2753/RSH1061-1983460401|s2cid=154943318}}</ref>

The freedom of religion clause outraged the Russian Orthodox Church because it allowed people to convert to evangelical Protestantism, which they denounced as heresy.<ref>Paul W. Werth, [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/481695/summary "The emergence of 'freedom of conscience' in imperial Russia"]. ''Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History'' 13.3 (2012): 585–610.</ref>