On Civil Liberty and Self-Government
of the primary assemblies.
19th Century Theodore Dwight Woolsey English- Every man born and living in France, of twenty-one years of age, and every alien, who has attained the age of twenty-one, and has been domiciled in France one year, and lives from his labor;
and finally every alien whom the legislative body has declared as one well deserving of the human race, are admitted to exercise the rights of a French citizen.
The right of exercising the rights of citizen is lost:
The exercise of the rights of citizen is suspended:
The primary assemblies are formed of the citizens who have resided six months in a canton.
They consist of no less than 200 and no more than 600 citizens, called together for the purpose of voting.
They are organized, after a president, secretaries and collectors of votes have been appointed.
They exercise their own police.
No one is allowed to appear there with arms.
The elections are made either by secret or loud voting, at the pleasure of each voter.
A primary meeting can in no case prescribe more than one manner of voting.
The collectors of votes note down the votes of those citizens who cannot write, and yet prefer to vote secretly.
The votes on laws are given by “Yes,” and “No.”
The elections of primary assemblies are published in the following manner:
The united citizens in the primary assembly at—, numbering—votes, vote for, or vote against, by a majority of—.