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THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE,
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Qonjlitutional AEt of the Republic of
FRANCE.
Article I.
THE French republic is cne and indivi
sible.
Os the division of the people.
2. The French peo; le are divided, for
die exercise of the sovereignty, into prima
ry afiemblies or cantons.
3. For the administration of justice they
are divided into departments, difaids and
municipalities.
Os the {late of Citizens.
4. Every man born and rcfident in France,
of the age of 21 years complete; every for
eigner aged 21 years complete,who has resided
a year in France, who has acquired property,
married a French woman, adopted a child,
or maintained an aged person; in (hort, eve-
Jy foreigner who (hall be judged by the le
gislative body to have deserved well by his
humanity, shall be admitted to exercise the
lights of a French citizen.
The exercise of the rights of citizens
shall be loft by being naturalized in a foreign
country, by accepting functions or favors
from a government not popular, and by con
formation to difgraceful or penal punish
ments.
6. The exercise of the right of citizen
lhall be suspended by a state of accusation,
2nd by being declared contumacious, as
long as the fenter.ce is not reversed.
Os the Sovereignty of the People*
7. The sovereign people are the univetfa
lity of the French citizens.
8. They (hail immediately' name the de
puties.
0. They (hall delegate to electors the
choice of adminiflrators, public arbitrators,
criminal judges, and judges of repeal.
10. They shall deliberate on laws.
Os Primary Afj rail s.
!i. Primary aflemblies shall be cotnpofed
of citizens who have resided fix months in J
each canton.-
12. They shall consist cf 2co citizens at
bast, or 600 at most, called to vote. . j
13. Theyft'atl be ccnihituted by the no- ;
oinatioii of a preftdent, fecretarics and feru
tineers.
14. Their police shall belong to their.
15. No person can appear there with
arms.
16. The eleftions shall be made by fern-
Uny, or openly by the voice of each voter.
17. A primary aflembly car.nct 'in any
csfe preferibr an uniform mode or voting.
18. The ferutineers shall certify theivcres
citizens who, not being able to write,
'refer voting by ferutiny.
19. The fufirages on laws fliall be given
y yes or no.
20, The will of the primary a {Terribly
■'-211 be proclaimed as follows : “ The. ciii
■ou united in ike primary ajftr.dly of ,to the
member of- voters , vote (for or againfl)
By a majority of .”
I Os the. National Representation.
H 21. Population is the only basis of nati-
Bial representation.
■ 22. There lhall be a deputy for every
®>coo inhabitants.
§B 2 3* When primary aflemblies unite, To as
pm*onn a population cf from 39,000 to
GEORGIA.
1 41,000 fouls, they fliall immediately chocfe
1 a deputy.
24. The nomination fliall be made by an
absolute majority of votes.
25 * Each aflembly (hall draw the fuffrages,
and lend a commiflioner to the general re
view, in the place marked out as the most
central.
26. If the firft review does not give an
absolute majority, recourse shall be had to
a second appeal, and the contest shall lie be
tween the two citizens who have had most
votes.
27. Ia case the votes are equal, {the
est fliall have the preference either to'ihe oaU
lotted for or ele&ed. In case of equality of
age, chance shall decide.
28. Every Frenchman cxercifing the
rights of citizen, is eligible throughout the
whole extent of the republic.
29. Each deputy belongs to the nation.
30. In case of the refiif.il, resignation,
•suspension or death of a deputy, his place
lhall be supplied by the primary aflemblies
who eleiftcd him.
3 1. A deputy who gives in his resigna
tion, cannot quit his post until his successor
shall be admitted.
32. The French people fliall aflemble
every year, on the ift of May, for elections.
33. T hey fliall proceed to them, whatever
may be the number of citizens who have a
rig! t to vote.
34. The primary aflemblies shall form
themselves extraordinarily, on a request of
the fifth part or the citizens who have a
right to vote.
35. The convocation stall be made in this
case by the municipality of the usual place of
meeting.
36. Those extraordinary afTemblies (ball
not deliberate, unless the half of the citizens
plus one, who have a right to vote there, •
are present.
Os Elt floral A families.
27. The citizens united in primary as
semblies, shall name an elector for every 200
citizens, present or not; two fer from 201
j to 400, and three for from 4.0 rto 600.
38. The holding of ti e electoral assem
blies, and the mode of election, fliall be the
fame as for the primary afTemblies.
Os th■■ Leeij' ti e Body.
79.. The legislative body is cne, indivi
flbic uni permanent.
40. Its time of fitting ft'all be ore year.
41. It fliall meet on the fir tof July.
4.2. The national ai’-ly cannot con
. ftlrute it Pdf, unk sit be com. ofed of half the
de. uties, plus, cr.e at lea".
. 47. The deputies cannot be seized, ae
cufed, nor tried at any time, for the opinion
which they express among the legiflativcbodv.
44. For criminal afts they may be seized
in cases where the faft is notorious; bi t
neither a mandate of aired, nor a mandate
for trying them, can le decreed, but by
authority of the legislative body.
Holding of the Settings of the Legislative
■ ■ Body.
47. The fittings of the national aflembly
fliall be public.
46. The minutes of the fittings shall be
published.
47. It cannot deliberate, unless it consists
of more than 200 members a: halt.
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48. It connot refufe to hear its members,
when they with to speak in the order they
demand.
49. It fliall decide by a majority of those
present.
50. Fifty members have a right to call
for the appeal nominal.
51. It has a right to censure the condufl of
its members within the place of its fitting.
9 2. The police belongs to it in the place
of its fittings, and within a certain diitrift
which it (hall determine.
Os the Funfitons of the Legislative Body.
53. The legislative body fliall propose
laws and pass decrees.
5-4. Under the of laws, are
comprehended aCts of the legislative body
concerning civil and criminal legislation;
the general administration of the revenues
and ordinary cxpences of the republic; the
nature, amount, and collecting of contri
butions; the declaring of war; every new
division of the French territories; public in
ftruClion, and the public honors granted to
the memory of great men.
55. Under the particular name of decrees,
are com - rehended aCls of the legislative bo
dy, concerning the annual eftablilhment of
the sea and land forces; permitting or pro
hibiting the paflage of foreign troops
through the French territories; the intro
duction of foreign naval forces into the ports
of the republic ; measures of general fafety
and tranquility; the annual and temporary
distribution of aids and public labours; or
ders for the coining of money of every kind ;
unforefeen and extraordinary expences; mea
furcs peculiar and local to one adminiflra
tion, commune, or kind of public works ;
the defence of territory; the ratification of
treaties; the nomination and suspension of
ommandr rs in chief of the armies; the prose
cuting and responsibility of members of the
council cr public functionaries ; the accusing
of persons guilty cf forming plots against the
general fafety of the republic; every change
in the partial division oi the trench territory,
and national rewards.
0/ the Formation 'cf a Law.
$ r >. Every plan of a law (hall be preceded
by a report.
t;:. The difeuflion cannot be continued,
nor the law provisionally decreed, longer than
fifteen days after the report.
C \ The plan {hall be printed, and fi-nt
to ad the communes of the republic, under
the title of a law prop ofed.
on. Forty days after the plan has been
pul iifhed and diflributed, if in one half of
the de. artments, plus one, a tenth part of
the primary aifemblies of each of them, re
gularly formed, have not remonflrated a
gainst the plan, it fliall be considered as ac
cepted, and fliall become a law.
60. II there be a rerr.onftrance, the le
gislative body {hall convoke the primary
afiemblies.*
Os the Tv Is of Laws and Decrees.
61. Laws, decrees, sentences, and all public
aCts (hall l>e entitled, In the name of the Fnn< h
people , the year of the French republic.
Os the Executive Count il.
62. There {hall be an executive council
composed of 24 members.
63. The electoral afiembly of each de
partment {hall nam'' a candidate, and the
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