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 commands that the following provisions be applied as a Constitution for Administration of the Kingdom until the constitution to be drawn up by the Constitution Drafting Assembly is promulgated:

The sovereign power comes from all the Thais.

Thailand is a kingdom which is one and indivisible. A Monarch serves as the Head [of State] and holds the position of Head of the Thai Armed Forces.

The person of the Monarch enjoys a sacred and inviolable status.

There shall be a Privy Council with [Members] numbering not more than nine. The appointment and removal from positions of the Privy Councilors shall be at the royal pleasure.

The Monarch enacts acts for application by and with the advice and consent of the National Assembly.

The Cabinet exercises the executive power and the courts exercise the judicial power. All this shall be done in the name of the Monarch.

There shall be a Constitution Drafting Assembly which has the duty to draft a constitution and which shall, in the capacity of a National Assembly, discharge legislative duties also.