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 dom of Thailand which should stay stable as an eternal pillar of the process of governance in time to come. The House of Representatives thus established a Subcommittee to draw a draft of such Constitution up.

After the Subcommittee had well and successfully fulfilled His mandate and repaid His benevolence by composing the permanent Constitution and introducing it to the House of Representatives, and [after] the House of Representatives had considered, discussed, and voted upon it and humbly presented its advice to Him, He reviewed it with care and thoroughness before giving a great royal command by which He declared to all an order that [it] be enacted [as] a Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand and be promulgated from the 10th day of December 2475 Buddhist Era onwards.

Later on, Nai Pridi Banomyong, who at that time held the position of Regent, exchanged remarks with Nai Khuang Aphaiwong, Prime Minister, saying it had been fourteen years since the great divine monarch granted this Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand to the Thais, and even though the administration under the regime of democracy, of which the Constitution was the pillar, had brought about to the Country prosperity in