 He did not like the Nominal Constitution of 1869, according to which the National Assembly had quite wide powers to draft laws and Stefanović dislike ke the fact that the composition of a village assembly of mostly illiterate deputies drafted laws and that ministers had to respond to the interpellations before such an assembly.Because he looked old-fashioned, he was known as "Uncle Danilo".Prince Milan Obrenović chose mostly younger conservatives for the government, but the majority-liberal assembly opposed the ministers and the government.