The Louisiana populist., 1895-07-05

So'o'Oish ooscHoiy OuguJ 10 ENJOY
the right of expressing It's will with
perfect liberty; it is essentially inde.
pendent OF all constituted authorities,
and competent to regulate its own
policy and deliberations
u. Ali the citizens are equally ad-
missible to all public functions with
out any other distinctions than those
OF virtue and talents withot any
other title than the confidence of the
people.
22. All the citizens have an equal
right to concur in the nomination oi
the delegates OF the people and in the
foundation of the law.
%. In order that these rights be
not illusory, and rendered chimerical,
society ought to pay the public func.
tionaries and to provide that the citi-
zens who labor ought to be able to
assist at the public assemblies to
which the law calls them, without
compromising their means of exist
ence or that OF their families.
"a. Every citizen ought religiously
to obey the magistrates and agents OF
the government, while they are the
organs and executors Of the law
20. But every act against the lib
erty, the safety, or against the prop
erty of man, by whomsoever exer-
cised, even in the name of the law
itself, if not comprehended within the
cases determined by the law, and
within the forms it prescribes-every
such act is arbitrary and null. The
very respect due to the law forbids
submission tS it. aud If the attempt be
made to execute such act by violence.
it is permitted to repel force by force.
26. The right of presenting petit
tions To the depositar;es of public au-
thority belongs to every individual.
Those to whom they are addressed
ought to determine upon the points
which constitute the object of them;
but they can never either interdict, or
restrict. or condemn the exercise of
the right
27. Resistance to oppression is the
consequence OF the other rights of
man and of the citizen.
%. There is oppression against the
social body whenever one alone of its
members is oppressed. There is OPP
preston against every member of it
when the social body Is oppressed.
20. When the government violates
the rights of the people insurrection is
for the people. and for every portion
of the people. the most sacred of
rights and the most indispensable OF
duties.
80. When the social guarantee or
compact fails to protect a citizen. he
resumes his natural right to defend
personally all his rights.
81 In either of the two preceding
cases. to subject to legal forms the
resistance to oppression is the last re-
fnement OF tyranny.
32 Public functions cannot be con-
sidered as distinctions, nor as recon-
penses. but as public duties.
80 The crimes OF the delegates of
the people ought to be severely and
promptly punished. No one has the
right OF pretending that he is more
inviolable than other citizens.
81. The people have the right to
know all the operations of its dele
gates. 1t is the duty of the latter to
render to the people a faithful ac-
count Of their behavior. and to sub
NIT to its judgment with respect.
30. Men of all countries are broth
ers. and the people of each ought to
yield one another mutual aid, accord
ing to their ability. like citizens of
the same state
Sc. He who oppresses one nation
alone is declared an enemy of all.
81. Those who make war OF a peo-
pie. to arrest the progress of liberty,
and to annihilate the rights of man,
ought to be pursued everywhere, not
as ordinary persons, but as assassins
and brigand rebels.
3S. Kings. aristocrats and tyrants
OF every description, are slaves in re-
volt against the sovereign OF the earth.
which is the human race, and against
the Legislator of the universe, which
is nature.