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( 16 ) Diet, all be regarded as a mo eential foundation of civil liberty.

The majority of votes all decide every thing, and every where; therefore we aboli, and utterly annihilate, liberum veto, all orts of confederacies and confederate Diets, as contrary to the pirit of the preent conitution, as undermining the government, and as being ruinous to ociety.

Willing to prevent, on one hand, violent and frequent changes in the national conitution, yet condering, on the other, the necety of perfecting it, after experiencing its effects on public properity, we determine the period of every twenty-five years for an Extraordinary Conitutional Diet, to be held purpoely for the revion and uch alterations of the conitution as may be found requite; which Diet all