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Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . NEW CONSTITUTION OF FRANCE . THE Commission of Eleven have at length presented their report upon the New Constitution of France . To the Constitution of 1793 the New Constitution bears very little resemblance . Itdeclares the Form of Government to be Republicanone and indivisibleand
, ; the sovereignty to reside in the whole body of the French people . The declaration of rights is similar to the former declaration , with the exception of the articles relative to the right of insurrection , and to the popular societies . These articles are suppressed . There is also a new article in favour of the liberty of the press , which in future is neither to be suspended , nor limited , nor violated in Jhe slightest degree under any pretence whatever . The legislative power is to be . divided between two assemblies . The one to be of '
composed 500 members under the name of the Council of the FiveHundred ; the other of 250 members under the appellation of the Council of the Ancients . The Council of Five Hundred is to initiate all laws ; the Council of the Ancients is to sanction and ratify them . Half of the members of each assembly are to go out every two years . ^ To be eligible to the Council of the Five Hundred a - man must , be a French citizen , have been resident in France for ten years previously to his electionbe thirty of and be possessed of a certain
, years age , portion of landed property . To be eligible to the Council o'f Ancients a man must he either married or a widower , have been resident in France for fifteen years ' , be forty years of age , and must have been in possession of a certain portion ot " landed property for one year previously to his election The legislative body is to have a guard of 1260 men . - . . The two Councils are to be elected directly by- , the Primary Assemblies . Every man born and living in France , and ' zr years of age , whose name is'inscribed in
the register of his canton , and who pays a stipulated contribution to the state is a French citizen . Persons , however , born in France , and having made one or more campaigns in the present war , are exempted from the above conditions . —Foreigners are not to be entitled to the rights of French citizens until they have resided seven years in France , and pay a direct contribution , or possess any landed property , or marry a French woman . The executive power is to be vested in the hands of a directory , composed of fivemembersand the
- , appointed by legislative body from a list made out by the Couucil of the Ancients . The directors are to remain in power five years ; one « s to go out by rotation every year ; each is to be president in his turn for three months . Palaces and large salaries are to be assigned to them , aud they are to . be attended in public by aguard of honour . The directors are not to be less than forty years of age ; and the members of the legislative body cannot be elected to the executive power till two years after the expiration of their legislative functions .
These are the principal provisions of the new Constitution which is proposed to be given to France ; the prominent features of it are those of an aristocratic rather than of a democratic Republic . ' Boissy d'Anglas concluded this interesting report on the new French Constitution as follows : " You will establish civil equality—equality with respect to the law . —Ton will Tiol attempt to establish absolute equality , which is a ehimera . We ought to be governed by the best menand will find the best those who have in
, you among an - terest in maintaining the government , and in the execution of the laws—and tJtse are men of property . —Men without property would soon attack property and establish fatal taxes , which they would neither fee ! nor have foreseen . That VOL . V . K "
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . NEW CONSTITUTION OF FRANCE . THE Commission of Eleven have at length presented their report upon the New Constitution of France . To the Constitution of 1793 the New Constitution bears very little resemblance . Itdeclares the Form of Government to be Republicanone and indivisibleand
, ; the sovereignty to reside in the whole body of the French people . The declaration of rights is similar to the former declaration , with the exception of the articles relative to the right of insurrection , and to the popular societies . These articles are suppressed . There is also a new article in favour of the liberty of the press , which in future is neither to be suspended , nor limited , nor violated in Jhe slightest degree under any pretence whatever . The legislative power is to be . divided between two assemblies . The one to be of '
composed 500 members under the name of the Council of the FiveHundred ; the other of 250 members under the appellation of the Council of the Ancients . The Council of Five Hundred is to initiate all laws ; the Council of the Ancients is to sanction and ratify them . Half of the members of each assembly are to go out every two years . ^ To be eligible to the Council of the Five Hundred a - man must , be a French citizen , have been resident in France for ten years previously to his electionbe thirty of and be possessed of a certain
, years age , portion of landed property . To be eligible to the Council o'f Ancients a man must he either married or a widower , have been resident in France for fifteen years ' , be forty years of age , and must have been in possession of a certain portion ot " landed property for one year previously to his election The legislative body is to have a guard of 1260 men . - . . The two Councils are to be elected directly by- , the Primary Assemblies . Every man born and living in France , and ' zr years of age , whose name is'inscribed in
the register of his canton , and who pays a stipulated contribution to the state is a French citizen . Persons , however , born in France , and having made one or more campaigns in the present war , are exempted from the above conditions . —Foreigners are not to be entitled to the rights of French citizens until they have resided seven years in France , and pay a direct contribution , or possess any landed property , or marry a French woman . The executive power is to be vested in the hands of a directory , composed of fivemembersand the
- , appointed by legislative body from a list made out by the Couucil of the Ancients . The directors are to remain in power five years ; one « s to go out by rotation every year ; each is to be president in his turn for three months . Palaces and large salaries are to be assigned to them , aud they are to . be attended in public by aguard of honour . The directors are not to be less than forty years of age ; and the members of the legislative body cannot be elected to the executive power till two years after the expiration of their legislative functions .
These are the principal provisions of the new Constitution which is proposed to be given to France ; the prominent features of it are those of an aristocratic rather than of a democratic Republic . ' Boissy d'Anglas concluded this interesting report on the new French Constitution as follows : " You will establish civil equality—equality with respect to the law . —Ton will Tiol attempt to establish absolute equality , which is a ehimera . We ought to be governed by the best menand will find the best those who have in
, you among an - terest in maintaining the government , and in the execution of the laws—and tJtse are men of property . —Men without property would soon attack property and establish fatal taxes , which they would neither fee ! nor have foreseen . That VOL . V . K "