The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-19 00:00:00

CHAPTER 111.-ON THE EXECUTIVE POWER.

41. The French people delegates the executive power
to a citizen, who receives the title of President of the
Republic.
42. In order to be named President the person must
be born a Frenchman and of the age of thirty years at
least.
43. The President is nominated by the direct and uni-
versal suffrage of the people, by secret suffrage, and by
the obsolete msjority of the voters.
CHAPTER on the council of state,
CHAPTER V.--Is on the interior administration.
CHAPTER Vl.—ls on the judicial powers.
CHATTER VII.—Is on the public force.
CHAPTER VIII.—GUARANTEE OF RIGHTS.

Art. 115. The confiscation of property can never be
re -established.
116. Slavery cannot exist on any French territory.

117. In no case can the press be submitted to censor.
ship.
118. All political offences are to be exclusively tried
by jury.
119. All citizens have a right to print and cause to be
printed, due regard being paid to the guarantees due to
public and private rights.
120. The appreciation of offences committed by means
of the press, or by any other means of publicity, belong
exclusively to the jury.
121. The jury alone shall decide on the amount of
damages claimed for offences of the press.
122. Each citizen professes freely his religion, and
receives from the state for the exercise of his peculiar
tenets an equal protection.
123. The ministers of public worship, acknowledged
by the law, have alone a right to receive a salary from
the state.
124. The liberty of public instruction is exercised
under the guarantee of the laws, and under the superin-
tendence of the state. This superintendence shall extend
to all establishments of education, without any exception.
125. The domicile of each citizen is an inviolable
asylum. It is not allowed to any one to enter there ex-
cept according to the forms and in the cases determined
by the law.
126. No man shall be deprived of his national judges.
127. All property of every description is inviolable.
129. All taxes are established for common utility.
Each is to contribute according to his fortune.
130. No tax can be levied except in virtue of a law.

131. The direct taxes can be fixed for one year only.
132. The essential guarantees of the right of labour
are, liberty of labour, voluntary association, equality
in the relations between the employer and the work-
man ; gratuitous instruction, education, suitable to each
man's po'ition : establishments of prevoyance and credit;
the establishment of great works of public utility, and
the state destined to employ the men in case of failure
of work.

133. The Constitution guarantees the public debt.
134. The Legion of Honour is maintained. The sta-
tutes shall be revised, and placed in accordance with de-
mocratic and republican principles.
135. The territory of Algeria, and of the colonies, is
declared French territory, and shall be governed by par-
ticular laws suited to each.
CHAPTER IX.-ON THE REVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION.

CHAPTER X.—TEMPORARY PROTISIoN.
The 13th chapter treats of the attributes of the
Executive power, and proposes besides the President,
who is to be elected by universal suffrage, a Vice.
President, who will he nominated on the presenta-
tion of the President of the Republic by the National
Assembly, and who by right of office will be Presi-
dent of the Council of State. The President is to
be elected for four years. The President will
nominate all the members and all the political agents;
he can dispose of the military force, but cannot com-
mand them in person. The Assembly is to be re-
elected every three years.:
It was on the proposition of the Pastor CootiEnEr.
that the office of Vice-President was created. The
Committee has taken exactly one month to draw up
the Constitution.

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