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and members of the defense forces need no leave for the performance of their functions as members of the Reichstag or a Land's Diet. If they are candidates for a seat in one of these bodies, the necessary leave must be extended to them to enable them to prepare for their election. Article 40 Members of the Reichstag shall have free passes for all German railways and receive a compensation for expenses to be fixed by Reich law. Third Chapter The Reich President and the Reich Government Article 41 The Reich President is elected by the whole German people. Every German who has completed his thirty-fifth year is eligible for election. Details will be regulated by a Reich law. Article 42 The Reich President shall, on assuming office, take the following oath before the Reichstag. I swear to devote my energies to the well-being of the German people, to further their interests, to protect them from injury, to keep the Constitution and the laws of the Reich, to fulfill my duties conscientiously and to administer justice to all. It is permissible to add a religious asseveration. Article 43 The Reich President's term of office shall last seven years. Re-election is permissible. At the request of the Reichstag the President may be deposed from office by plebiscite before his term has expired. A two-thirds majority vote is necessary for such a resolution by the Reichstag. The resolution has the effect of suspending the Reich President from the further exercise of his office. If the deposition is rejected by the plebiscite, this is regarded as a new election and entails the dissolution of the Reichstag. The Reich President cannot be prosecuted criminally without the consent of the Reichstag. Article 44 The Reich President may not at the same time be a member of the Reichstag. Article 45 The Reich President represents the Reich in the sphere of international law. He concludes alliances and other treaties with foreign powers in the name of the Reich. He accredits and receives Ministers. War is declared and peace concluded by Reich law. Alliances and treaties with foreign States which relate to matters within the legislative competence of the Reich, require the consent of the Reichstag. Article 46 The Reich President appoints and
foreign powers in the name of the Reich. He accredits and receives Ministers. War is declared and peace concluded by Reich law. Alliances and treaties with foreign States which relate to matters within the legislative competence of the Reich, require the consent of the Reichstag. Article 46 The Reich President appoints and dismisses the public officials of the Reich and officers of the defense forces, unless otherwise provided by law. He may allow the right of appointment and dismissal to be exercised by other authorities. Article 47 The Reich President has supreme command over all the defense forces of the Reich. Article 48 If a Land fails to fulfill the duties incumbent upon it according to the Constitution or the laws of the Reich, the Reich President can force it to do so with the help of the armed forces. The Reich President may, if the public safety and order in the German Reich are considerably disturbed or endangered, take such measures as are necessary to restore public safety and order. If necessary he may intervene with the help of the armed forces. For this purpose he may temporarily suspend, either partially or wholly, the Fundamental Rights established in Articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124 and 153. The Reich President shall inform the Reichstag without delay of all measures taken under Paragraph 1 or Paragraph 2 of this Article. On demand by the Reichstag the measures shall be repealed. In case of imminent danger, the government of any Land may take preliminary measures of the nature described in Paragraph 2 for its own territory. The measures are to be revoked upon the demand of the Reich President or the Reichstag. Details will be regulated by a Reich law. Article 49 The Reich President exercises the right of pardon for the Reich. Reich amnesties require a Reich law. Article 50 All orders and decrees of the Reich President, including those concerning the defense forces, require for their validity the countersignature of the Chancellor of the Reich or the competent Minister of the Reich. By countersignature responsibility is assumed. Article 51 The Reich President shall, when prevented from functioning, be represented in the first place by the Reich Chancellor. When such disability is likely
the countersignature of the Chancellor of the Reich or the competent Minister of the Reich. By countersignature responsibility is assumed. Article 51 The Reich President shall, when prevented from functioning, be represented in the first place by the Reich Chancellor. When such disability is likely to be of long duration, a Reich law shall regulate the question of representation. The same applies in the case of a premature termination of the Presidency until the new election takes place. Article 52 The government of the Reich shall consist of the Chancellor and the Reich Ministers. Article 53 The Reich Chancellor and at his proposal the Reich Ministers shall be appointed and dismissed by the Reich President. Article 54 The Chancellor and the Reich Ministers require for the exercise of their office the confidence of the Reichstag. Any of them must retire if the Reichstag by express resolution withdraws its confidence. Article 55 The Reich Chancellor presides over the government of the Reich and conducts its affairs according to rules of procedure laid down by the government of the Reich and approved by the Reich President. Article 56 The Reich Chancellor determines the outlines of the policy of the State and is responsible to the Reichstag for the same. Within these outlines each Reich Minister conducts the office entrusted to him independently and on his own responsibility towards the Reichstag. Article 57 The Reich Ministers shall lay before the Reichstag for deliberation and enactment all bills and all matters for which such a course is prescribed in the Constitution or by law, as well as all differences of opinion in regard to questions within the competence of more than one Minister. Article 58 The government of the Reich passes its resolutions by majority vote. In the case of tie votes the chairman has a casting vote. Article 59 The Reichstag is entitled to impeach the Reich President, the Chancellor and Reich Ministers for having culpably violated the Constitution or a statute of the Reich before the Constitutional Court. The motion for impeachment must be signed by at least one hundred members of the Reichstag and be approved by the majority prescribed for amending the Constitution. Details will be regulated by
for having culpably violated the Constitution or a statute of the Reich before the Constitutional Court. The motion for impeachment must be signed by at least one hundred members of the Reichstag and be approved by the majority prescribed for amending the Constitution. Details will be regulated by the Reich statute concerning the Constitutional Court. Fourth Chapter The Reich Council Article 60 A Reich Council shall be constituted to represent the German Lands in the legislature and administration of the Reich. Article 61 Each Land has at least one vote in the Reich Council. In the case of larger Lands there shall be one vote for every 1,000,000 inhabitants. A surplus, which is equal to at least the population of the smallest Land, will be reckoned equal to 1,000,000. No Land may be represented by more than two-fifths of the total number of votes. German-Austria, after its union with the German Reich, shall be entitled to participate in the Reich Council with the number of votes proportionate to its population. Until then the representatives of German-Austria may take part in the deliberations. The number of votes shall be fixed anew by the Reich Council after every general census. Article 62 No Land shall have more than one vote on the committees formed by the Reich Council from its own members. Article 63 The Lands shall be represented on the Reich Council by members of their governments. But half the Prussian votes shall belong to the Prussian provincial administrations in accordance with a Land law. The Lands are entitled to send as many representatives to the Reich Council as they have votes. Article 64 The government of the Reich must convene the Reich Council on the demand of one-third of its members. Article 65 A member of the government of the Reich shall preside over the Reich Council and its committees. The members of the government of the Reich have the right and-if so demanded-the duty of attending the deliberations of the Reich Council and its committees. On their own request they must be heard at any time during the proceedings. Article 66 The government of the Reich and each member of the Reich Council are entitled to lay proposals before the Reich Council. The Reich Council regulates its procedure by
the deliberations of the Reich Council and its committees. On their own request they must be heard at any time during the proceedings. Article 66 The government of the Reich and each member of the Reich Council are entitled to lay proposals before the Reich Council. The Reich Council regulates its procedure by rules of procedure. The plenary sittings of the Reich Council are public. In compliance with the rules of procedure the public may be excluded for specific subjects of deliberation. Decisions are taken by a simple majority of those voting. Article 67 The Reich Council shall be kept informed by the Reich ministries of the conduct of affairs of the Reich. The competent committees of the Reich Council shall be consulted by the ministries of the Reich with regard to important affairs. Fifth Chapter Reich Legislation Article 68 Bills are introduced by the government of the Reich or by members of the Reichstag. Reich laws shall be enacted by the Reichstag. Article 69 The introduction of bills by the government of the Reich requires the consent of the Reich Council. If no agreement is reached between the Reich government and the Reich Council, the Reich government may introduce the bill notwithstanding, but must state the contrary opinion of the Reich Council. If the Reich Council resolves on a bill not assented to by the government of the Reich, the latter must introduce the bill to the Reichstag, stating its own point of view. Article 70 The Reich President shall promulgate all constitutionally enacted laws and proclaim them in the Reich's Legal Gazette within one month. Article 71 Reich laws, unless they provide otherwise, come into force on the fourteenth day after the date on which the Reich's Legal Gazette is published in the capital of the Reich. Article 72 The proclamation of a Reich law shall be postponed for two months on the demand of one-third of the Reichstag. Laws stated to be urgent by the Reichstag and the Reich Council may be proclaimed by the Reich President notwithstanding such demand. Article 73 A law enacted by the Reichstag shall be made the subject of a referendum, if the Reich President so determines within a month. A law, the proclamation of which has been postponed on the
the Reichstag and the Reich Council may be proclaimed by the Reich President notwithstanding such demand. Article 73 A law enacted by the Reichstag shall be made the subject of a referendum, if the Reich President so determines within a month. A law, the proclamation of which has been postponed on the application of at least one-third of the members of the Reichstag, shall be subjected to a referendum, if one-twentieth of the persons qualified to vote so submit. A referendum shall further be instituted if one-tenth of the persons qualified to vote initiate by petition the introduction of a bill. An elaborated bill must underlie such people's initiative. The bill shall be submitted to the Reichstag by the government together with a statement of its own point of view. No referendum shall take place if the petitional bill is passed unaltered by the Reichstag. In regard to the budget, taxation laws and laws relating to pay and salaries, only the Reich President may inaugurate a referendum. A Reich law shall regulate the procedure for referendum and initiative. Article 74 The Reich Council is entitled to raise an objection to laws passed by the Reichstag. The objection must be submitted to the Reich government within two weeks following the final vote in the Reichstag and sustained by reasons at the latest within two further weeks. When such objection has been raised, the law is again submitted to the Reichstag for redecision. If by this means no agreement is reached between the Reichstag and the Reich Council, the President may, within three months, order that a referendum be taken on the matter in dispute. If the President does not exercise this right, the law is considered not to have been passed. If the Reichstag has passed the law in spite of the objection by the Reich Council by a two-thirds majority, then the President must either proclaim the same within three months in the form approved by the Reichstag or order a referendum to be taken. Article 75 A referendum can nullify an enactment of the Reichstag only if a majority of those qualified to vote take part in the vote. Article 76 The Constitution may be amended by law. But acts of the Reichstag amending the Constitution can only take effect if
a referendum to be taken. Article 75 A referendum can nullify an enactment of the Reichstag only if a majority of those qualified to vote take part in the vote. Article 76 The Constitution may be amended by law. But acts of the Reichstag amending the Constitution can only take effect if two-thirds of the legal number of members are present and at least two-thirds of those present consent. Resolutions of the Reich Council also require a two-thirds majority of the votes taken, when an amendment to the Constitution is in question. If on a popular initiative an amendment to the Constitution is to be decided by referendum the consent of a majority of those qualified to vote is required. If the Reichstag has passed an amendment to the Constitution in spite of an objection on the part of the Reich Council, the President may not proclaim such law, if within two weeks the Reich Council demands a referendum. Article 77 Unless otherwise provided by law the Reich government shall issue the general administrative provisions necessary for putting into execution the laws of the Reich. The approval of the Reich Council is required when the execution of the Reich laws is within the competence of the authorities of the Lands. Sixth Chapter Reich Administration Article 78 The cultivation of the relations with foreign States is exclusively a function of the Reich. With regard to matters the regulation of which is within the competence of the Lands' legislatures, the Lands may conclude treaties with foreign States; such treaties require the approval of the Reich. Agreements with foreign States relating to any alteration of the boundaries of the Reich are concluded by the Reich, after the consent of the Lands concerned has been obtained. Such boundary alterations may only be undertaken on the basis of a Reich law, unless it is simply a case of adjusting the boundaries of uninhabited districts. All arrangements and measures necessary for safeguarding the interests of individual Lands arising out of their particular economic relations with or their proximity to foreign States shall be undertaken by the Reich in agreement with the Lands concerned. Article 79 The defense of the Reich is a function of the Reich. The defense
measures necessary for safeguarding the interests of individual Lands arising out of their particular economic relations with or their proximity to foreign States shall be undertaken by the Reich in agreement with the Lands concerned. Article 79 The defense of the Reich is a function of the Reich. The defense organization of the German people shall be uniformly regulated by Reich law with due regard to special peculiarities of the inhabitants of the different Lands. Article 80 Colonial matters belong exclusively to the competence of the Reich. Article 81 All German commercial vessels constitute one single merchant marine. Article 82 Germany constitutes one single customs and trading area surrounded by a customs frontier. The customs frontier coincides with Germany's foreign frontier line. At the sea the shore of the mainland and of the islands belonging to the territory of the Reich form the customs boundary. Deviations may be ordered for the course of the boundary line along the sea and other waters. Foreign territories or parts of territories may be joined to the customs area by means of international treaties or agreements. Portions may be excluded from the customs area to meet particular necessities. In the case of free ports such exclusion can only be repealed by a law amending the Constitution. Districts excluded from the customs area may be joined to a foreign customs area by means of international treaties or agreements. All products of nature and industry and art which are freely traded within the Reich may be transported over the boundaries of the Lands and Communes into, out of, and through them. Exceptions may be allowed by Reich law. Article 83 Customs duties and consumption taxes are administered by the authorities of the Reich. The authorities of the Reich, when administering taxes of the Reich, shall take steps to enable the individual Lands to safeguard their own particular interests in regard to agriculture, trade, commerce and industry. Article 84 The Reich shall provide by law for: 1. the institution of a tax administration of the Lands, so far as is necessary for the uniform and equal execution of the Reich taxation laws 2. the institution and powers of the authorities
in regard to agriculture, trade, commerce and industry. Article 84 The Reich shall provide by law for: 1. the institution of a tax administration of the Lands, so far as is necessary for the uniform and equal execution of the Reich taxation laws 2. the institution and powers of the authorities entrusted with the supervision of the execution of the Reich taxation laws 3. the accounting with the Lands 4. the reimbursement of the costs of administration in executing the Reich taxation laws. Article 85 All revenues and expenditures of the Reich must be estimated for every fiscal year and entered in the budget. The budget shall be passed by law before the beginning of the fiscal year. Appropriations are as a rule made for one year; in special cases they may be granted for a longer period. Other provisions in the budget law which legislate for a period beyond the fiscal year, or which have no reference to the revenues or expenditures of the Reich, may not be incorporated in the budget law. The Reichstag may not increase existing or incorporate new appropriations in the budget bill without the consent of the Reich Council. The consent of the Reich Council may be replaced as provided in Article 74. Article 86 The Reich Minister of Finance shall, in the course of the year, account to the Reich Council and the Reichstag for the expenditure of all the revenues of the Reich for the preceding year in order to release the government of the Reich from its responsibility. The auditing of this account shall be regulated by Reich law. Article 87 Funds may only be obtained by loans in the case of extraordinary requirements and, as a rule, only for the purpose of productive outlay. A Reich law is required for this method of procuring funds as well as for the creation of a charge on the Reich by way of security. Article 88 The post and telegraph as well as the whole telephone system are exclusive functions of the Reich. Postage stamps are uniform for the whole Reich. Treaties relating to communications with foreign countries may only be concluded by the Reich. Article 89 It is a function of the Reich to take over the ownership of railways serving as means of general traffic and to operate them
exclusive functions of the Reich. Postage stamps are uniform for the whole Reich. Treaties relating to communications with foreign countries may only be concluded by the Reich. Article 89 It is a function of the Reich to take over the ownership of railways serving as means of general traffic and to operate them as a uniform system of communications. The rights of the Lands to acquire private railways shall be transferred to the Reich on demand. Article 90 With the transfer of the railways the Reich acquires the right of expropriation and the sovereign state rights of the Lands over the railway systems. The extent of these rights shall be decided in the case of conflict by the Constitutional Court. Article 91 With the approval of the Reich Council, the government of the Reich shall issue all decrees relating to the construction of railways, their operation and traffic. With the consent of the Reich Council, the government may transfer this right to the competent Reich Minister. Article 92 The railways of the Reich, although their budget and accounts are incorporated in the general budget and accounts of the Reich, shall be operated as an independent economic enterprise, with the duty of defraying its own expenditure including interest on and amortization of the railway reserve fund. The amount of the amortization and the reserve fund, and the purposes for which the latter is to be utilized shall be regulated by special law. Article 93 The government of the Reich with the consent of the Reich Council shall establish advisory councils for the railways of the Reich to assist in an advisory capacity in matters relating to railway traffic and rates. Article 94 Once the Reich has taken over the administration of the railroads serving the general traffic of a particular district, new railroads serving general traffic may not be constructed within such district except by or with the consent of the Reich. When new railroad systems or alterations in those already existing are so projected as to fall within the police competence of any Land, the Reich railroad administration shall consult the Land authorities before the decision is taken. Whenever the Reich has not yet taken over the administration of