diff --git a/tla/consensus/MCccfraft.cfg b/tla/consensus/MCccfraft.cfg
index afbec1250..9d96d1375 100644
--- a/tla/consensus/MCccfraft.cfg
+++ b/tla/consensus/MCccfraft.cfg
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ CONSTANTS
     Servers <- ToServers
 
     MaxTermLimit = 2
-    MaxCommitsNotified = 0
     RequestLimit = 3
 
     StatsFilename = "MCccfraft_stats.json"
diff --git a/tla/consensus/MCccfraft.tla b/tla/consensus/MCccfraft.tla
index 2affb34e6..fdd1158a5 100644
--- a/tla/consensus/MCccfraft.tla
+++ b/tla/consensus/MCccfraft.tla
@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@ ASSUME Configurations \in Seq(SUBSET Servers)
 CONSTANT MaxTermLimit
 ASSUME MaxTermLimit \in Nat
 
-CONSTANT MaxCommitsNotified
-ASSUME MaxCommitsNotified \in Nat
-
 \* Limit on client requests
 CONSTANT RequestLimit
 ASSUME RequestLimit \in Nat
@@ -91,10 +88,6 @@ MCSend(msg) ==
         /\ n.type = AppendEntriesResponse
     /\ CCF!Send(msg)
 
-\* Limit max number of simultaneous candidates
-MCInMaxSimultaneousCandidates(i) ==
-    Cardinality({ s \in GetServerSetForIndex(i, commitIndex[i]) : leadershipState[s] = Candidate}) < 1
-
 MCInit ==
     /\ InitMessagesVars
     /\ InitCandidateVars
diff --git a/tla/consensus/MCccfraftAtomicReconfig.cfg b/tla/consensus/MCccfraftAtomicReconfig.cfg
index 3801e3804..599014fd3 100644
--- a/tla/consensus/MCccfraftAtomicReconfig.cfg
+++ b/tla/consensus/MCccfraftAtomicReconfig.cfg
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ CONSTANTS
     Servers <- ToServers
 
     MaxTermLimit = 5
-    MaxCommitsNotified = 2
     RequestLimit = 3
 
     StatsFilename = "MCccfraftAtomicReconfig_stats.json"
diff --git a/tla/consensus/MCccfraftWithReconfig.cfg b/tla/consensus/MCccfraftWithReconfig.cfg
index c9471765c..51a7e12c1 100644
--- a/tla/consensus/MCccfraftWithReconfig.cfg
+++ b/tla/consensus/MCccfraftWithReconfig.cfg
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ CONSTANTS
     Servers <- ToServers
 
     MaxTermLimit = 4
-    MaxCommitsNotified = 2
     RequestLimit = 2
 
     StatsFilename = "MCccfraftWithReconfig_stats.json"
diff --git a/tla/consensus/SIMccfraft.tla b/tla/consensus/SIMccfraft.tla
index 175f970ad..f70cbe477 100644
--- a/tla/consensus/SIMccfraft.tla
+++ b/tla/consensus/SIMccfraft.tla
@@ -27,14 +27,14 @@ SIMChangeConfigurationInt(i, newConfiguration) ==
 SIMTimeout(i) ==
     /\ \/ 1 = RandomElement(1..100)
        \* Always allow Timeout if no messages are in the network
-       \* and no node is a candidate or leader.  Otherise, the system
+       \* and no node is a candidate or leader.  Otherwise, the system
        \* will deadlock if 1 # RandomElement(...).
        \/ /\ \A s \in Servers: leadershipState[s] \notin {Leader, Candidate}
           /\ Network!Messages = {}
     /\ CCF!Timeout(i)
 
 \* The state constraint  StopAfter  stops TLC after the alloted
-\* time budget is up, unless TLC encounteres an error first.
+\* time budget is up, unless TLC encounters an error first.
 StopAfter ==
     LET timeout == IF ("SIM_TIMEOUT" \in DOMAIN IOEnv) /\ IOEnv.SIM_TIMEOUT # "" THEN atoi(IOEnv.SIM_TIMEOUT) ELSE 1200
     (* The smoke test has a time budget of 20 minutes. *)
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ SIMPostCondition ==
 
 =============================================================================
 
-## Repeatedly run TLC in simulation mode to shorten a counterexample (the depth parameter will consequtively be reduced based on the length of the previous counterexample).
+## Repeatedly run TLC in simulation mode to shorten a counterexample (the depth parameter will successively be reduced based on the length of the previous counterexample).
 $ echo 500 > depth.txt
 ## Loop while the depth.txt file exists and is not empty.
 $ while [ -s depth.txt ];