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312 The delegates to congreſs ſhall be five in number; any three of whom, and no fewer, may be a repreſentation. They ſhall be appointed by joint ballot of both houſes of aſſembly for any term not exceeding one year, ſubject to be recalled, within the term by joint vote of both, the ſaid houſes. They may at the ſame time be members of the legiſlative or judiciary departments, but not of the executive.

The benefits of the writ of Habeas Corpus ſhall be extended, by the legiſlature, to every perſon within this ſtate, and without free, and ſhall be ſo facilitated that no perſon may be detained in priſon more than ten days after he ſhall have demanded and been refuſed ſuch writ by the judge appointed by law, or if none be appointed, then by any judge of a ſuperior court, nor more than ten days after ſuch a writ ſhall have been ſerved on the perſon detaining him, and no order given, on due examination, for his remandment or diſcharge.

The military ſhall be ſubordinate to the civil power.

Printing-preſſes ſhall be ſubject to no other reſtraint than liableneſs to legal proſecution for falſe facts printed and publiſhed.

Any two of the three branches of government concuring in opinion, each by the voices of two thirds of their whole exiſting number, that a convention is neceſſary for altering this conſtitution, or correcting breaches of it, they ſhall be authoriſed to iſſue writs to every county for the election of ſo many delegates as they are authoriſed to ſend to the general aſſembly, which elections ſhall