STATE PAPERS. 



43. 1 



SicrLY. — Articles established in 

 Parliament, and presented to the 

 Sovereignjbr his Royal Sanction. 



Art. 1. The religion shall be the 

 Catholic, Apostolical, Roman, 

 alone, to the entire exclusion of 

 every other; the King shall pro- 

 fess the same, and whenever he 

 shall profess any other, he shall be 

 ipso facto deposed from the throne. 

 Placet Regis Majestati. 



Art. 2. The Legislative power 

 shall reside exclusively in the Par- 

 liament. The laws to be in force 

 after being sanctioned by his Ma- 

 jesty. All taxes, &c. imposed, of 

 whatever nature, to be fixed by 

 the Parliament alone ; and also to 

 be sanctioned by his Majesty. The 

 form to be veto or placet, the King 

 having it in his power to admit or 

 reject them without qualification. 

 Placet Regis Majestati. 



Art. 3. The Executive Power 

 shall reside in the person of the 

 King. — Placet Regis Majestati. 



Art. 4. The Judiciary Power 

 shall be distinct, and indepen- 

 dent of the Executive and legis- 

 lative Powers, and to be admi- 

 nistered by a body of Judges and 

 Magistrates. These to be triel, 

 punished, and deprived of their 

 situations, by sentence of the House 

 of Peers, after having gone through 

 the House of Commons, as set 

 forth by the Constitution of Great 

 Britain, and which shall he ex- 

 plained at length in the article of 

 Magistracy. — Placet Regis Majes- 

 tati. 



Art. 5. The person of the King 

 shall be always sacred and invio- 

 lable. — Placet Regis Majestati. 



Art. 6. The King's Ministers, 

 and other persons in the employ of 

 Gove nment, shall be subject to 



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the examination and control of 

 the Parliament ; and to be by the 

 same accused, tried, and con- 

 demned, should they be found to 

 have offended against the Consti- 

 tution, and the observance of the 

 laws, or to be guilty of any other 

 high crimes, in the exercise of 

 their functions. — Placet Regis Ma- 

 jestati. 



Art. 7. The Parliament shall be 

 composed of two Houses, the one 

 to be called the Commons, or Re- 

 presentative of the People, as well 

 freeholders as vassals, on the con- 

 ditions and forms to be hereafter 

 established by Parliament, in its 

 subsequent acts upon this article ; 

 the other to be called the Peers ; 

 the same to be composed of all 

 those ecclesiastics and their suc- 

 cessors, and of all those barons 

 and their successors, and the 

 present, possessors of estates, who 

 now have the right to sit and 

 vote in the ecclesiastical and 

 military branches, as well as of 

 others who may be heieal'ter 

 elected by his Majesty, agreeably 

 to the conditions and limitations 

 to be fixed by Parliament in the 

 article of detail upon this point. 

 Placet Regis Majestati. 



Art. 8. The Barons sh.all have, 

 as Peers, individually one vote only, 

 relinquishing the multiplicity of 

 votes relative to the number of 

 their population. The Chancellor 

 of the kingdom to |)resent an ac- 

 count of the actual Barons and 

 Ecclesiastics, to be insi^rted in the 

 Acts of Parliament. — PLicel Regis 

 Majestati. 



Art. y. The King shall enjoy 

 the prerogative of convoking, pro- 

 roguing, or dissolving the Parlia- 

 ment, agreeablv to the forms and 

 institutions which uiu\ Le heie- 

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