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The British convened a selected commission of middle class Africans to draft a new constitution that would give Ghana more self-government.

Under the new constitution, only those with sufficient wage and property would be allowed to vote.

Nkrumah organized a " People's Assembly " with CPP party members, youth, trade unionists, farmers, and veterans.

They called for universal franchise without property qualifications, a separate house of chiefs, and self-governing status under the Statute of Westminster 1931.

These amendments, known as the Constitutional Proposals of October 1949, were rejected by the colonial administration.