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 CONSTITUTION i^i^ ist. Physical or moral incapacity that prevents the free and rea- sonable exercise of the faculties. 2d. The condition of domestic service. 3d. Arrest under an accusation of an offence punishable by a se- vere or infamous penalty. Art. II Citizenship is lost for the following causes: ist. Condemnation to a severe or infamous penalty. 2d. Fraudulent failure in business. 3d. Naturalization in a foreign country. 4th, Acceptance of employment, offices, distinctions or pensions from a foreign government, without special permission of Congress. Those who from any of the above mentioned causes shall have lost their citizenship, may regain it by action of the Senate. CHAPTER V — Public rights of Chileans Art. 12 The constitution secures to all the inhabitants of the Republic; ist. Equality before the law. In Chile there is no privileged class. 2d. The right to fill all public employments and offices without other conditions than those prescribed by law. 3d. The equal distribution of imposts and taxes in proportion to their possessions, and the equal distributions of other public burdens. A special law will determine the manner of recruitment and enroll- ment of substitutes for the land and naval forces. 4th. The liberty of residence in any part of the Republic, of re- moval from one place to another, or departure from its territory, un- der the police regulations, and always without injury to other par- ties; and no person can be arrested, held or exiled, except in the man- ner prescribed in the laws. 5th. The inviolability of all property, whether belonging to indi- viduals or communities, and no one can be deprived of his ownership of the same, nor of any part of it, however small, or of any right he may have in it, except by judicial decision; save when the interests of the state, specified by law, shall demand the use or expropriation of the same; and in such cases previous indemnification shall be given to the owner by agreement with him or by valuation made by compe- tent men. 6th. The right of assemblage without previous permission and without arms, Meetings held in the squares, streets and other places of public use shall be always governed by police regulations.