In March 1892, the Catalanist Union held a meeting of delegates in Manresa with the aim of drawing up the organisation's political programme. The result was the Bases per a la Constitució Regional Catalana. The Bases de Manresa, as the document has since become known, was inspired by federalism and the traditional constitutions, and proclaimed Catalonia to be a sovereign country, structured the country by dividing it on the basis of the districts within it, declared Catalan to be the official language, and established a corps of volunteers to form the army. For the first time, Catalanism had a defined political project.