No one can be prosecuted, arrested, detained or exiled except in the cases provided for by law and according to the prescribed forms. Liberty of worship is guaranteed to all. All property possessed or acquired by virtue of the laws, and all state-credits, are inviolable. Every citizen has the right to print and publish his thoughts in signed form, without any prior censorship, subject to legal responsibility, after publication, by jury trial. The right of petition is secured to all citizens.
Every petition is individual.
They shall be presented to the chambers under the guarantee of a member who recommends the petition. No place nor any part of the territory can be declared in a state of siege, except in the case of invasion on the part of a foreign force, or of civil disturbances. In the first case, the declaration is made by an act of the government. In the second case, it can be made only by a law. Yet, the case occurring, if the chambers are not assembled, the act of the government declaring the state of siege must be converted into a proposal for a law within the first fifteen days of the meeting of the chambers.